C IN E MAti • TRADE NEWS • Earnest distribution discussions begin Industry unanimous in

OTTAWA - Negotiations be­ for figures about the number of open competition w ith the rejecting distribution policy tween the minister of Com­ films distributed by the Ma­ Majors, No study know n to munications and the Major jors, the markets and the reve­ Cinem a Canada h ad suggested American distribution com­ nues, among other things. that negotiations with the TORONTO - On June 27 , in tributors in the Canadian mar­ panies have begun in earnest David Silcox, assistant deputy Majors was a viable option for both Toronto and Montreal, ket, and $14.5 earned by foreign over the question of the dis­ minister and one-time presi­ the government to take. Canadian distributors held distributors outside of Canada. tribution of,S=anadian films by dent of the Canadian Film Furthermore, those acquain­ press conferences demanding The distributors maintain that these companies. In a press re­ Development Corp., is sche­ ted with the process of writing that the National Film and Video these figures are conclusive lease dated July 30, the Majors, duled for a round of meetings the policy insist that, until a Policy be amended to require proof that Canadian dis­ through their spokesman Mil­ with the Majors in late August late date, it held strong posi­ that all films in which govern­ tributors are able to generate lard Roth, agree in principle, to in Los Angeles after his cur­ tions bolstering Canadian dis­ ment agencies invest be dis­ more revenues than foreign "play an active role in helping rent vacation in California tributors, and suggested mea­ tributed in Canada by Cana­ distributors in the Canadian to achieve the cultural and eco­ draws to a close. sures similar to those in Que­ dian companies. marketplace. nomic development objectives The distribution aspect of bec's Bill 109 to curb the in­ In a policy analysis, the dis­ The thrust of the distribution outlined in the National Film the film policy has drawn con­ fluence of the Majors in tributors, members of the policy (see Cinema Canada No. and Video Policy." siderable criticism from the Canada. Association of Independent 108) is to encourage the Ame­ In this first meeting between Canadian film industry (see MacDonald insists that the and Canadian Owned Motion rican Majors to pick up more the minister Ed Lumley, newly related articles), and the gov­ policy still does support the Picture Distributors and of the Canadian films for distribution appointed by the Turner gov­ ernment has been charged Canadian distributor through Association quebecoise des both in Canada and in other ernment to head up the depart­ with undermining the entire the marketing initiatives of distributeurs et exportateurs territories. This attitude, say ment of Communications Canadian distribution sector, Telefilm Canada, and the de films state that from 1968 10 the distributors, undermines (DOC), and Roth, executive already considerably weakened monies now available to them 1974, the Canadian Film Dev­ completely the Canadian dis­ director of the Canadian -Mo­ by the domination of the Majors for the distribution of Cana­ elopment Corp. required every tribution companies. tion Picture Distributors Asso­ in the Canadian marketplace, dian films. "In every year, the film it funded to have a dis­ In an eloquent open letter to ciation ICMPDA), full agree­ the increased competition of Canadians distribute the vast tribution contract with a Cana­ the then-minister of Com­ ment was achieved over "the from the classics divisions of majority of Canadian films; dian distributor. This was the munications Francis Fox, re­ need to work together toward foreign-based distribution the Majors pick up, at best, a period during which the best­ printed here on p. 35, the dis­ the full realization of Canada's companies, and the paucity of dozen." known Canadian directors tributors spell out the anger objectives" for the industry by viable product world-wide, She insists, however, that the (Carle, Jutra, Cronenberg, She­ and deception they felt when developing ways through which These latter factors are amply logic of the policy is c1ear- that bib, etc.) began working, and it confronted with a film policy the Majors "could address these described in the film policy the most important factor is to was also the period during which, in their opinion, would objectives, primarily those of itself. get a quality product to Cana­ which the films were the most reinforce the hold of the Ame­ greater access by Canadian During the process of crea­ dian audiences. "You can gear profitable if one compares rican Majors over the Cana­ productions to the screens and ting the policy, several studies any policy toward the product, budget to revenues generated. dian marketplace. They re­ revenues" of the marketplace. were commissioned by the or toward the players. This From 1974 to 1981, the dis­ iterate the old saying which One of the first steps in the DOC, the most exhaustive one policy is dominated by a con­ tributors continue, the require­ Fox repeated in his policy process is the creation of a coming from the Task Force on cern for the product and the ment for distribution by a paper, "Those who control the common data base, Cinema Distribution headed by pro­ audience it should reach," she Canadian distributor was distribution sector, control the Canada was told by Lynn Mac­ ducerllawyer Ronald I. Cohen. concedes, suggesting that dropped, and the tax shelter industry," and insist that the Donald, the director-general of It was generally acknowledged through growth and by gaining' prompted a boom of produc­ minister has no right to under­ Cultural Affairs at the DOC, so that all the studies underlined a world market, Canadian dis­ tion. The result, they state, was take negotiations for the private that both parties are using the the grave situation in which tributors (the players) will that $600 million of production sector w hen these negocia­ same numbers and talking the Canadian distributor found eventually playa larger role in generated $40 million of tions do not have th e welfar e of about the same thing during himself, and the importance of the distribution of Canadian revenues, $24 million of which that sector at h eart. the current discussions. The' immediate and radical initia­ films. were, nevertheless, earned by The appeal of the distributors CMPDA is expected to comply tives if the sector was not to be Concretely, the distribution Canadian distributors, $1.5 was echoed by the consulta­ with the department's request fatally debilitated through aspect was determined as fol­ million earned by foreign dis- (cant. on p. 3 5) lows: "The six or seven pieces of research commissioned in CanContent means financial desaster the area of distribution were CanContent 0K with Ontario public tL studied and options were dev­ OTTAWA- In an effort to stave separate, non-competitive areas eloped, ranging from the most TORONTO - The "overwhelm­ channels (6 % of population) to off the creation of yet another in which each company will costly to the least, the more ing majority" of Ontario resi­ over Zo channels 114%). Also the monopoly in the communica­ hold the monopoly, will simply interventionist to ,the least, dents favor maintenance of numbers of channels received tions field, Lawson Hunter, the "remove any leverage" the etc./!, explains MacDonald, current Canadian content levels varied by the respondents' re­ Director of Investigation and CRTC has in dealing with the These options were submitted on television, and in the event gion, income levels and com­ Research under the Combines companies. It wiII not solve the to the senior management of the addition of new televi­ munity size, For example, while Investigation Act, appeared be~ problem, says Lawson. committee, composed of deputy sion channels the "vast majo­ only 8% of Metro Toronto re­ fore the CRTC 0[\ July 24 and minister Robert Rabinovitch rity" of Ontario residents would sidents receive only 1-6 chan­ Despite projections, fur­ requested it roll back the Cana­ and six assistant deputy prefer to see this done by es­ nels, 41 % of those in Northern nished by the applicants, which dian content requirements for ministers, whose first job was tablishing new Canadian chan­ Ontario are in this category. suggest that such are-definition Canadian pay-TV licensees to "get rid of the crazies" nels rather than importing U.S. If four out of five Ontario would allow them to be profit­ Isee text of Hunter's presenta­ among the options and to sug­ channels. residents fee l they receive ei­ able, Hunter cautions that "the tion, p. ??). gest those which should be There are the two most pro­ ther too many or about the Commission well knows the According to Hunter's analy­ adopted. "The options were nounced conclusions to be de­ right number of TV channels, forecasts presented to it re­ sis, the "overwhelming prob­ considered according to their rived from a recently released "a disproportion ally h igh p er­ garding pay-television matters lem" faced by the pay-licensees financial feasibility, their poli­ survey commissioned by the centage" 157 %) of those w ho to date bear little resemblance is "the existing structure of tical feasibility and the timing Ontario ministry of Transpor­ think they receive too few cha n­ to the experience in the indus­ Canadian content obligations of the policy." Ultimate ly, the tation and Communications. nels live in rural areas, try," and foresees that the which they must meet," obliga­ then-minister of Communica­ Entitle d "View er Choice of Two out of three respondents Canadian content problem tions which in turn cause an tions, Francis Fox, bears Television Services in Ontario," have cable ; two thirds of these will come back to haunt the unacceptable repeat factor of the survey results, re leased a channe l converter, w hile 12";, CRTC in future hearings if it is responsibility for the final Canadian programs, a high dis­ Julv 11, w ere prep ared by T o­ ( 8 ~~ of the tota l sample I sub­ not dealt with now. options, she reported. satisfaction level among sub­ Asked about the current d is­ rOI~to m edia consultants Paul scribe to pa\'-TV. Among non ­ scribers and which entail costs Representatives of the cussions, MacDonald stated Audley and Associates, based cabled respondents, 6 out oho that the companies cannot department of Communica­ that the minister must report on p rovince-wide interview s gave the non-ava ilab ility of bear. tions, charged with bolstering back to Cabinet on Nov. 29, and with 1050 adults, 18 and over. cable as the most common rea­ Approving the request by Canadian content, were quick that, should no progress be evi­ The survey found "su bstan­ son for not subscribing. Over both Allarcom and First Choice to state that they neither share dent, the government w ould tia l variations" in the number ha lf the rem ainder cited lack of to re-define their geographical the views of Mr. Hunter nor be prepared to take stronger of te levision stations received interest. market, thereby creating approve them. measures. by Ontario residents, from 1-3 (cant. an p. 4 5)

September 1984 - Cif1ema Caf1ada/33 34/Cinema Canada - September 1984 • C IN E MAt; • "Unthinkable and inexcusable" state distributors in open leHer Can funneling additional multi­ catalysts for, worldwide sales. distribution sector as the under­ "Private Sector Thrust" is fol­ The following is the com­ millions of dollars through the Should the Canadian film and lying necessity for a strong indi­ lowed. You have the right to plete te}(t of an open letter, CFDC serve this industry, or video industry now be con­ genous, and internationally ac­ negotiate on behalf of the written to former minister of the taxpayers of this country} if trolled by HBO, Showtime, cepted film industry. In Canada, National Film Board, on behalf Communications Francis Fo}( those dollars further American Embassy Home Entertain­ however, you, together with the of the Canadia n Broadcasting by the two distributors' asso­ control of Canadian production ment, Paramount Pictures, CFDC, have ignored this fact for Corporation, and even for the ciations - the Association of and distribution in Canada? Twentieth Century-Fo}(, War­ years. Your policy paper can be National Arts Centre. You do not Independent and Canadian­ ner Brothers, MCA and the the final sell-out. If further con­ have the right to negotiate on Owned Motion Picture Dis­ Millions of dollars were spent at the direction of your minis­ other American multi-national trol goes to the American multi­ behalf of the private sector un­ tributors and the Association companies? Your negotiating nationals you will sound the less w e request it, and su ch queblkoise des distributeurs try to commission the Apple­ baum-Hebert and Ron Cohen with representatives of those death knell, not simply for dis­ efforts are in our best interests. et e}(portateurs de films . reports. Your May 1984 policy companies will only push Cana­ tribution} but for the total Cana­ We would applaud government dian production to increase dian film industry. You will assistance were it based on the As Canadian owned film} paper ignores many of the broad Americanization of Canadian create, yet again} the circum­ years of input and information television and video distribu­ cultural proposals of Apple­ film, and will force producers to stances necessary for still an­ given to you by us - profes­ tion companies} we address baum-Hebert, and specific film constantly seek projects appeal­ other massive outflow of our sionals and experts engaged ourselves} principally, to that industry recommendations of ing to the American market­ talent. Your "reviewing the daily in the private sector of the part of your policy paper en­ the Ron Cohen report. That re­ place. Canadian Content will be situation in six months" might Canadian film industry. Our in­ titled} "Private Sector Thrust - port recommended} and under­ prone to further manipulation well take place at various inter­ put has been ignored. These Towards a Stronger Industry" lined the importance of, dis­ and further pressure to conform national airports across this professionals and experts do Our concerns can best be de­ tribution of Canadian film in to American standards. country, as our entrepreneurial not include representatives of scribed by entitling this part of Canada by Canadian owned Your paper laments the fact and creative talents leave to the American multi-national your policy paper to read, "Pri­ companies} and the control of that a minuscule percentage of seek a home where their work companies, whose interests are vate Sector Thrust - Towards a foreign sales of such product the 320 million Canadian box­ and creativity can flourish un­ counter-productive to the Stronger American Industry in by Canadian entrepreneurs. ll How are such specific recom­ office dollars is earned by fettered. growth of a truly Canadian film Canada Canadian product. You are con­ industry. They do not include Historically} the desire of the mendations} made after months cerned that only a tiny portion The American multi-national government bureaucrats who, many government ministers of consultation with profes­ of these boxoffice dollars re­ companies are our competitors. by the very nature of their whose portfolio included Cana­ sional representatives and ex­ main in this country. Yet, you The stranglehold that they have responsibilities, are too far dis­ dian film and cultural indus­ perts from the Canadian film suggest asking American multi­ maintained over distribution tanced from the realities of our tries} and the mandate given to industry, not only totally ignored} but even reversed ? national companies, whose in­ and exhibition oftheatrical film, industry to adequately under­ the Canadian Film Develop­ terest is the outflow of these and now home video} will be stand the complexities we face ment Corporation (CFDC ), has Your policy begs instead} for takeover of these functions by dollars, to distribute Canadian further strengthened if your on a day to day basis. been to foster and promote the product in Canada. You ask that healthy growth of the creative American multi-national com­ panies. they invest in Canadian produc­ and business sectors of those tion as a means to retain some of industries. In your policy paper Your national film and video policy states, "A .. . viable Cana­ those dollars in this country. Industry asks for revision we now see a total about-face Such investment would lead to relative to these concerns. dian film and video industry will be in a much better position creative control by foreign com­ (cont. from p. 33) Your policy paper astonish­ to seize on the potential com­ panies, ownership of product by ingly states that you seek to tive committee of Telefilm rica to be its domestic market, mercial benefits of distinctive­ foreign companies, and would negotiate with the U.S. multi­ - Canada, which represents all and will claim jurisdiction ly Canadian productions as has quickly create irreversible national companies to increase sectors of the industry. In a tele­ over any production origina­ ,been learned by the British, damage to the Canadian film their historical control over the gram to Fox, the committee de­ ting in the U.S ., or employing Australian and French indus­ industry. plored the fact that the minister any of its membres. The Bay Canadian film industry. You tries.}} We point out that the instiga­ state that you will negotiate by did not take into account the Boy, a film shot in Nova Scotia Honourable Sir} you ignore tion of the present form_of bid­ pleading with them to become long-standing demand of the by Dan Petrie, a Canadian citi­ the fact that these governments ding practice, as structured by more financially involved in industry for the "Canadianiza­ zen and a member of the DG C} and others} through various the Combines Investigation Canadian production} and to tion" of the distribution sector. still has not signed with the forms of constructive legisla­ Branch in July 1983, and sup­ be the distributors of Cana­ By mid-July, the distributors DGC because it claims that the tion, have protected against posedly done in the interests of had gained another powerful presence of Petrie, a resident of dian film in the Canadian mar­ fair practice, has contributed ketplace. Your stated intention control of their private distri­ ally in the Directors Guild of the U.S.A. , give s authority to the bution and production indus­ greatly to an increase in the flow Canada which had undertaken DGA. The film is also being dis­ to ask the member companies of Canadian boxoffice dollars to tries by American multi­ to make its members aware of tributed by the U.S. company of the Canadian Motion Picture American multi-national head Distributors Association (the national companies. That your the damage done to the Cana­ Orion. Obviously, a Canadian thrust is to have Canadian films offices. Canadian owned dis­ misleading name of the trade dian industry by the American government policy which e n­ distributed in Canada by Ame­ tribution companies have been association of the American notion of "domestic market", courages the notion that Canada rican companies, when severely affected by the bid­ multinational companies) for, and by early August, several is part of the domestic U. S. domestically owned distribu­ ding practice in its present form. "greater access by Canadian producers associations had market - and the current dis­ tion companies in the majority Not only has your ministry paid productions to Canadian au­ joined in a unanimous state­ tribution policy is a m a jor step of foreign countries of this no attention to the studies it ment condemning the dis­ in that direction - will have diences through their domestic commissioned} but it has been distribution systems}'} totally world are the distributors of tribution aspect of the film repercussions throughout the such Canadian films in their unaware of the negative affects negates the existence of Cana­ policy. production sector as w ell. own marketplaces, is unthink­ of this bidding practice on Cana­ dian owned distribution com­ As for the Association d es able and inexcusable. dian owned distribution and panies} and the role they have The Film Policy, the DGC producteurs d e films d u Que­ exhibition companies, when said in an undated six-page bec and th e Association of played over the years in finan­ The Apprenticeship ofDuddy these rulings were initiated by cing and distributing Canadian Kravitz, The Rowdyman, Red, statement entitled "Striking Canadia n Fil m and Television another branch of the same gov­ JlJ Back At The 'Empire , "will Producers, a joint statement productions in this country Outrageous, Kamouraska, La ernment. and abroad. vraie nature de Bernadette, Les give the American Majors ab­ was issued Aug. 10 le nding By what right does a minister miHes, are proudly mentioned The march towards further solute control over the Cana­ genera l supp ort for th e overa ll of the Canadian government in your policy paper. These domination of the Canadian dian marketplace . The sellout policy, but containing seriou s appoint himself "negotiator'} films could not have been pro­ film industry by American which began w ith the Cana­ reservations about the dis­ for the private sector? By what duced without an undertaking multi-national film companies, d ian Co-operative Project in tribution aspect. The pro­ right does this minister struc­ for distribution and some form which is inherent in your policy 1948 w ill be virtually com­ ducers mainta in that the gov­ ture a sell-out of Canadian of investment by Canadian paper} must be stopped. Were plete. 1984 w ill m ark th e final ernment's own studies and creative} business and entre­ owned distribution companies. this policy paper to have been victory of the Am erican Majors statistics underscore the im­ preneurial expertise} in the Such companies supported} written by Mr. Jack Valenti, chief over the Canadia n govern­ portance of having three strong guise of supporting it? The such support being mandatory spokesman for those multi­ m ent." sectors (p roduction, d istribu­ only thing strengthened by for a producer to gain funding national companies, it could not tion, exh ibition ), and urge a your policy is the further en­ assistance from the CFDC} the have better served their pur­ The DGC is esp ecially con­ revision of the po licy, gi\" e n the trenchment of'American multi­ production arm of the private poses. cerned about the distribution weaknesses concerning d is­ national control of our Cana­ sector of the Canadian film Filmmakers and distributors policy because of jurisdictional tribution. T h ey sta te that nego­ dian film industry} and greater industry. These companies dis­ in the United States and through­ difficulties with the Directors ti ations with the Majors cann ot encroachment and control by tributed such films nationally} out the world} and their govern­ Guild of Am erica. Like the be expected to b ring abo ut the bureaucratic agencies such as and in many cases were direct­ ments, have always recognized Am erican Majors, th e DGA revitalization need ed in the your ministry and the CFDG. ly involved in, or were the the basic importance of a stron g considers a ll of North Am e- Cana d ian d istribution sector.

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36/Cinema Canada - September 1984 • CIME MAt; • Random cross -country sample of opinions on film &video policy

Robert Lantos, Pierre Rene, France RSL Entertainment Corp., To sample national reaction through­ tors and filmmakers in the country's Film, Montreal: Toronto: out the industry to the National Film four principal production centres; "I haven't even read it so you "Overall, I feel it's a very posi­ and Video Policy, released late in May Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton and see the kind of importance it tive step, long overdue and one by then-Communications minister Vancouver. Asked to rate the policy on has in my eyes. All I know is which will stimulate-growth of Francis FOlC, Cinema Canada randomly a scalefrom 1-10, respondents averaged that I doesn't touch distribu­ the film industry and create an called producers, exhibitors, distribu- a favorable rate of3.9. tion ; from what my colleagues environment of stability which have told me it does absolutely has not existed until now in larger- it's already becoming a before in my working lifetime agendas that work here - I'm nothing for the independent Canada. The redefinition of the huge monster - and Telefilm which is about 15 years in this just looking for a middle ground distribution sector. And that's National Film Board role is wants to become even more business now. I like Fox actual­ to help people like me survive. about it. Even if some have said equally overdue a.nd reflects and more important. 'We're ly. One of the things I've said And I see myself as part of the that it kills the sector, I can't see the reality of what the NFB going toward a system where what superceeded this in my public sector of the film indus­ how you can kill something should be. It stresses the im­ production in Canada is going view is the fact that he's out in try - that is, I can be non-com­ that's already dead since as far portance of the private sector, to be a production for the tele­ the cold since Turner's been in. mercial. From instinct and in­ as I know distibution in English the leader both creatively and vision, and the producers are And this, I find shocking be­ terest the kind of subjects I Canada is almost dead. industrially in the film and going to be in the service of the cause I thought that the move tend towards have to be sup­ "Anyway, for the moment, television industry; it's healthy eBC and Telefilm. And, curious for the kind of cultural com­ ported by government because the policy doesn't affect me. It and reflects reality. However, it coincidence, both organizations ponents of this film business no one e lse would. So, when I might have if the federal gov­ stops short of where it should are run by just about by the staying in the Department of look from BC - we have a very ernment had taken the deci­ go in terms of protective legis­ same person since Andre Lamy Communication has actually reactionary government out sion to revitalize the inde­ lation in the form of a taxation was given his post by Pierre been basically salutary for those here - only the Federal govern­ pendent distribution sector - system on foreign films dis­ Juneau who is his brother-in­ of us in the industry. ment offers us the opportunity and it's obvious that had Para­ tributed by foreign distributors law, and who controls him "Fox understood in a tradi­ for some enlightenment now, mount or Fox product been in Canada. There may be a con­ completely. It's really a 'gam­ tional liberal small 'I' liberal but I think Fox was a very intel­ available, we would have been centration of so much money mick', and I think it's deplora" sense and big '1' liberal sense ligent from what I can tell. A lot in the race. As it is, we'll keep and power in the hands of ble that the producers don't in terms of Canada that there of the moves that the policy limping along, that's all. Telefilm Canada that creates understand things more clear­ are certain costs to indepen­ suggested means that he took a "Finally, it's been three years the possibility of a giant mons­ ly. Especially since the policy dent culture and that, regard­ little distance and a kind of now that Fox has done nothing ter in the future. There must be just burys the entire film indus­ less of what these costs are, critical look at the Appleburt about distribution. It's good constant checks and balances try. It only addresses itself to there are certain basic mini­ stuff which I thought was dis­ that he even talks about it, but established so as to keep Tele­ the television industry. It's mum threshold that we were astrous and stupid-minded one can only conclude that it's film in tune with the private completely idiotic. The Austra­ prepared to stand for and fight actually. a sector that wasn't worth sector." lians have refused to sign a co­ touching. I've always found on. One of these would be "I just think it's a move, I production treaty agreement something like a minimum that strange because there is a thought it was a move towards Rene Malo, Les Films with Canada, saying that the number of Canadian films be­ distribution problem here at bringing Canadian culture Rene Malo, Montreal: Canadian conception was ing produced yearly even if the the governmental level, let's back into the front rank of the ''The policy? It's crazy, it's Kaf­ erroneous. not kid ourselves. Cinema is argument couldn't be made public consciousness that kaesque. There are excellent "If I have to judge the policy after all not a major industry in that they'd be self-supporting. tended to be moved to the chances that the policy will on a scale from 10 to 1, it's zero. Or else d be absorbed in the Canada. Whether there is a ~e' backburner for a few years and simply be reversed because no There's just nothing in it. No, American culture. And I would Canadian cinema or not is not somebody like Fox could arti­ government can live with it. there's $1 million for scripts, so look at the policy with that going to change the face of the culate those kinds of argu­ The entire milieu is against it. I'll give it a one." Canadian economy even if you kind of attitude that goes back to ments. I had to rate the film I'm talking, of course, aboutthe 1929 and the Aird Commission put the entire film industry policy from 1 to 10, I would give distribution policy. But there's which really called for the together from exhibition to it, I think 6 or 7. But the issue nothing else in the policy. What Torn Shandel, Jericho establishment of the CBC for production, it does not repre­ whether the policy is 5, 6 or7 or else is there? It's completely Films Ltd., Vancouver: exactly the same reason that if sent an enormous activity. And 3, 4, 5 is almost irrelevant be­ superficial. It only repeats what "You know for those of us on we had left it to a kind of Tory distribution is a tiny fraction of cause it's bound to be a victim everyone has been saying for the Coast, or in the provinCial thinking, we'd just be absorbed this great hole - and the poli­ of the election. the last five years. It supposed­ enclaves like the Montreal in the United States. ticians are simply not prepared to underetake a great battle to ly injects $7.5 million, but English, who are, I imagine "Considering the NFB is a when you analyse it, there's more or less in the same boat, I save that sector. Or so it seems very important employer in Millard Roth, Canadian only $1.5 million for distribu­ think the policy is quite pro­ to me, despite everything that's our area, only a small core staff Motion Picture Distributors tion, and $1 million for script gressive and it's a step in the been said in the past 30-40 that hires exclusively free­ Association, Toronto: development. All the rest goes right direction and it's a bigger years, nothing's ever been lancers in terms of directors, "I will restrict my comments to toward making Telefilm even step I think than I've ever seen done. Politically it's just not anything that disbands the those aspects that relate to dis­ worth it. Cbte-de-Liesse facility and gets tribution and, more specifical­ " So things'll go on pretty INTRODUCING rid of the lab there and puts ly, to our association. I'm much as they've been. I don't A COMPUTERIZED BUDGETING SERVICE production money into the pleased that there is the really know what the great dif­ regions, is I think a very futu­ recognition in the policy of the ficulty is since Fox is after all FOR FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCERS ristic move. It even pleases the existence of the association, not the first minister to have kind of right-wing, free-market and of the potential role which ever tackled this dossier. But Pathfinder Communications offers a complete computerized types that exist out here. So I the members of the association for all sorts of reasons it's they budgeting service devoted to making that dreaded time-consuming think that getting away from might be able to play in terms process become a short-lived event. emit pious wishes, but when the idea of a kind of institu­ of supporting some of the ob­ you look at it in practice two Our service includes a consultation seSSion with verification of your tionalization of Canada, of cen­ script break-down resulting in a fast, accurate and inexpensive 18 jectives that are articulated in years later, nothing comes of it page budget ready for presentation to investors, granting agencies tralization which prevailed in the policy. Was the policy - distribution, nothing, exhibi­ and clients. the Film Board and still pre­ worth waiting for? I'm some­ tion, nothing also. We ar~ experienced in budgeting for industrials, documentaries, vails in the eBe of course, the what ambivalent in that area. " If I look at the policy as a series and feature presentations. We recently completed the budget further we get away from that, There are some positive aspects distributor, I'd give it a 1 - for Huntingwood Films' forthcoming production of Anne of Green I would say that I support this of the statement, and there are Gables. there's nothing there. As a citi­ attitude. some blanks to be filled in to zen perhaps I'd give it 4 or 5, Our computerized system features: The fact that it's the deinsti­ answer the question of whether but then, as I said, 1 haven't • A checklist 01 over 580 items which can be amortized separately over any number 01 shows tutionalizing, kind of getting it's worth waiting for. read it." • Auto computation 01: away from the monolithic "Obviously, the policy is not · penSion, welfare, and administration lees lor any or all 01 the 9 major productIon unions structures - the staff, kind of going to impact on the indus­ · ACTRA and Directors Guild buy·out and step·ups civil servants and bureaucrats try nearly as extensively as the Michael Spencer, · ACTRA 's complex lee strucJure lor writers . ' Filmline Productions, • Summary Sheet lists 18 major prod~ction categones WIth and the other: things - giving broadcast policy which intro­ above and below·the-line costs and WIll compute the FST lor the sponsored programs out to duced the Broadcast fund. The Montreal: lilm and video masters as well as PST "My general reactions were that • A lully printed 18 page revision wIthin hours the private sector, that makes impact will be of a much • Reasonable rates sense. Those that want to make longer term ; some of the the film policy was not a clear sponsored films constitute a mechanisms and the objec­ call for any particular thrust or certain part of the film industry. tives need a longer term to take action over another action. It COMMUNICATIONS,.''''.NIIBl INC. "I recognize that there is a hold." covered the entire water-front, 94 pricefi;ld Road, Toronto, Ontalio M4W 1Z9 (416) 960·0679 number of priorities in the (cant. on p. 38)

September 1984 - Cinema Canada/37 • C IN E MAt; • "They could have put a lot attempts have been made by triangle again, or whether it's "The film policy wasn't worth Random opinions more stress on the question of various ministers to negotiate going to get here. waiting for. It doesn't solve any (cont. from p. 37) video-cassettes, for example. this kind of a deal, to my know­ "The Film Board has always problems. It will affect the in­ but ... it's much too diffuse. Video movies in video stores ledge, in 1965, in 1972, probably been good to us out here. The dustry adversely. The Cana­ "Since the government intro­ and all that. They could have in 1977. None of it has ever only people who complained dian part of the film industry up here is still a small part of duced the Broadcast Fund last said, 'That's an important area. worked because the govern­ about the Film Board were the the whole. Most of the films. July, its policy should be based We will come up with some ment of Canada has never lab people down East or the film brokers down East. The that are seen here are Ameri­ on that concept. The thing to special programs to assist taken a solid position up-front Film Board provides us with can. Taking all facets of the in­ do is to push Canadian produc­ Canadian producers to get with legislation in place that dustry - producers, directors, tion in the direction in which it their stuff marketed.' But they they can use to convince the work over the rough periods - it's a very symbiotic relation­ actors, writers, distributors - can be of some impact. The seem to be trying in every area, other side that they are really the policy is still going to lead policy doesn't zero in on any­ except in the case of theatrical serious. And I don't have any ship ... The new measures won't the good Canadian people out thing, and I don't think that distribution. There it appears hope that this will be any better have any effect; it's just words." of Canada because the Ame­ that provides much leadership that the main thrust of their than any of the other efforts. ricans will learn to cultivate or excitement or whatever. idea is to tell Canadian pro­ "So on a scale from 1-10, I'd be ducers, 'Try and get into Cana­ tempted to give the policy a 5, Peter Simpson, Simcom people up here and bring them "Although the policy seems Ltd., Toronto: to reject the (Film Board) re­ da via the U.S.' I think they but that sounds like I have no down. It's not going to im­ should be honest with Canadian opinion. So I'll give it a 4." "I guess my impression is prove the industry in any way." commendations of the Apple­ generally favorable. It seems to baum-Hebert Commission, it distributors and say, 'Look you guys, your business is going draw all the areas together. doesn't really suggest any From wathing the events over other policy. It defines no role down the tube. Why should we George Christoff, Allen Stein, put any money into it?' But the years, there wasn't a Single for the Film Board. It simply Filmwest, Edmonton: policy before. Now what they've FiImwest, Edmonton: says that the Board should be they didn't say that. On the one "We were hurt a great two "I think almost everybody in hand, they say, let's get Ameri­ done is amalgamated all the given five years to divise devise years ago when the tax shelter various policies into one cohe­ the private film industry ap­ a policy for itself. cans to distribute more Cana­ was removed and people no plauds the spirit of the film dian films in Canada, and then sive body. I don't think they all "When you come to the dis­ longer had an investment in­ necessarily fit that well to­ policy, and I join vlith them. tribution thing, I think it's a pity they have these programs of centive. Until then, we were But there are quite a few things support for marketing of gether. It wasn't really thought that they didn't follow up on doing quite well. There is out as onepolicy ; it's simply an which alarm me about it. The the Broadcast Policy. At least Canadian productions but it re­ nothing in the most recent main thing is that- I don't want mains to be seen if what they're amalgamation. there they had given some policy which repairs the dama­ "The policy is weak in its to set this up as an West vs. East direction, they said, 'Look. The going to be doing is assisting ge which has been done. thing, or the Hinterland against Americans. attempts at marketing, in the future for the film industry in "The impetus is good. It's distribution of Canadian film ". the Metropolis -::: but those of us Canada is to produce for tele­ "This (negotiation with the structurally valid with the Having quiet chats with the in the 'regions' are at a dis­ vision because television is U.S. Majors for more Canadian future technology and all that. majors just doesn't work. advantage no matter how open films in theatres) is all being pre­ something we can control to But it's too early to tell whether Funding films is one thing, and and warm and sensitive the some extent ourselves.' At least sented to us as if it has never it's just going to be centered in making sure they have access people in the central institu­ happened before. But, in fact, there is a policy". the Montreal-Toronto-Ottawa to the screens in this country is tions are to us, because of the another, and I don't think centralization of these very they've been realistic about institutions. Just to make the insuring that that is going to phone calls and the trips to To­ happen. ronto, we're at a huge financial "The fund is a good idea. disadvantage because that's an There's no specific help for expensive and time-consuming features. Pointing out the con­ proposition. And we're not Mobile part of the gossip mill and the tinued existence of the capital cost allowance is a bit of a joke socializing that goes on in because you couldn't get ar­ Toronto so, just for starters, rested selling cca's these days. we're at a disadvantage and Image the film policy does not address It's nice that it's there, but having it on the statutes and that issue at all. The word having it function is a different 'regional' only crops up once in thing. There will be positive the film policy, and only with is reference to the Film Board aspects. For the first time they have acknowledged the dis­ part of the policy. So what tribution and marketing phase. scares me is that there are no They have acknowledged that directives in the policy to gov­ Dubner there is help needed in that ern the basic principles by area. I think, however, that which Telefilm will operate vis some experimentation by a vis regional parity and re­ Three very busy Dubners generating computer graphics. Canadian distributors on gional development. In fact, its Fresh, eXCiting, attention-getting graphics. Canadian films with theatre developmental role is very sub­ Dubner computer graphics are not something you mess chains will show the warts and ject to question because Tele­ around with. In experienced hands they can be spectacular perhaps lead to a more com­ film, in the past, has shown And Mobile Image has the experienced hands. prehensive policy which will itself to be more interested in In fact Mobile Image has a full hand of services to help be more realistic about getting the Hollywood orientation. you produce spectacular television programming, tele­ the job done." The problem is that a few vision commercials and industrial videos. people or even one person has Some of the most mobile images Of the '80'S, at prices a lot of discretionary power. right out of the '60's. Andy Emilio, Citadel Without guidelines that wouLd Let our experienced hands add a spectacular dimension Distribution, Toronto: satisfy people here, it's a little to your images. "I think the policy is irrelevant bit scary. With all its money, to distribution. It is going to Telefilm doesn't seem to be Americanize whatever Cana­ very oriented toward the first­ dian production is done from time producer, or the producer here on in. It puts the control who is outside of the standard which people like myselfhad­ clique. the entrepreneurs - into the "Most people are pretty scep­ hands of the government and tical about the distribution Telefilm Canada. Canadian part. It seems to me that the distributors used to be invol­ problem is so much more fun­ In Toronto's lower west Side. ved, because we know the damental than just quotas or marketplace from the ground voluntary quotas or whatever up - better than the producer they try to do. It's a whole cul­ at certain given times. Now the tural kind of thing, and it's so 26 SOHO STREET Majors are to handle the films, deep and it's so broad that to 591-1400 not only in the States but in try to attack this problem with­ Canada. Aside from putting us Call Ted or DOug or June for the permanent Mobile Image service. out trying to kindle the whole down in our own country, we national imagination, which is don't have a chance to extend really what it's all about... It outside of the country. either. (cant. on p. 39)

38/Cinema Canada - September 1984 • C I lit E MAt; • Jack Darcus, Exile Film the Americans to do something Victor Loewy, followed, and everything is, Random opinions Productions, Vancouver: about this. I'm not interested in Vivafilms, Montreal: once again, controlled by the ''I'm impressed with what they good will myself because 1 just "There's not a single word of Majors. are talking about. The main don't believe it works, but after new facts, new suggestions, "I was totally and completely (cont, from p- 38) problem is the elections. I'm a six-month period of evalua­ new ideas. They are simply surprised by the policy. I would tion, they will talk about such rehashing the same paper I've never believe that Francis Fox can't hurt but it follows the worried about the removal of Francis Fox and I'm not sure things as tax levies, quotas and seen for the last six years. would sell out to such an ex­ Hollywood model. and Tele­ that was the best thing to do in all that. I think the idea that the Basically, what 1 see is that they tent. It's a joke. What are their film's into that. There isn't the middle of the process. The Americans will somehow run have hired more people, and conclusions ? I've seen that a word about Australia, or about an industry which can election is going to matter very more Canadian films in Ame­ they came up with the same they are going to go to the grow up with a cultural identity much for the filmmakers be­ rica might add up to a little policies. They watered down Majors to beg them to agree to as well as being viable finan­ cause the implementation of more than tokenism. The pro­ everything vis a vis the Majors, take money from Telefilm to cially and artistically." the policy is, 1 expect, going to blem to be addressed is that all they left the field totally open launch Canadian films. That's be questionable. the money leaves the country to them, and we're extremely all. Basically, I thought that the "The most promising part of every year without any of it unhappy with them. policy was going to give Tele­ Andre Link, the policy is that something is resting here, doing what it "I'm falling back to myoid film Canada something to do. Cinepix, Montreal going to be done about distribu­ should for us as it does in other position. 1 don't give a shit one Before, 80% of the money given "Generally, 1 think it's a step in tion of Canadian films in Cana­ countries." way or the other what the to them was used up to pay the the right direction, with one dian theatres. The surface government does because salaries. Now they' re just extremely disturbing factor thrust is that a lot of money is Jim Westwell, Televectra they're not helping us. I'm hiring more incompetent peo­ which concerns distribution. I going to be distributed to peo­ Film Development Inc., going to suggest to my organi­ ple. But what are they doing ? think that, in so far as distribu­ ple in the industry but behind Vancouver: zation (of distributors) that we I've asked Lamy now for years, tion is concerned, the policy it is the idea of a fair system in "We don't have a particular should stop operating with 1 want to know what they're is short-sighted, erroneous, Canada for Canadian films and great need right now to read it them in any way and treat doing. what they've done since ignorant and devastating. It Canadian theatres. All the but I guess that it just doesn't them as if they don't exist. They Lamy took over. I never had should be changed. As it stands, details of the thing sound very affect me immediately at this have never, never done any­ any beef before, but since it's an absolute negation of positive. moment. 1 guess that's why I thing we told them to do. We Lamy took over, there's been what has been said and done "I think that what's happened haven't bothered to pick up submitted a very specific nothing. I'm deeply dissapoint­ for the past ten years and more. in the past is that a 'good will' and run with it. But inevitably paper about pay-TV which ed, so much so that in my case You still have- to show me a system has been put into place. it certainly will effect me down they have never followed. We it's going to influence the way country in which there is indi­ And that was eroded and never the line and how, I don't know have submitted suggestions on I'm going to vote." genous production without brought into practice. My yet before I read it. But no, I've the video policy. It hasn't been national distributors. If Cana­ understanding, from the film been working on a Hollywood da is to be the new model, well, policy meetings we've had out picture and it's going on and on I'd like to see that." here, is that they will explore and that just keeps me busy." ways to bring pressure upon Allocations by the Societe

MONTREAL - Since the Societe Since the 1984-1985 aid plan generale du cinema became (approximately $8 million) Quebec's principal film-finan­ went into effect June 1, the SGC cing agency Feb. 20, it has aBo­ had by July 9 received applica­ cated over $2 million of public tions for a total of 109 projects money to 75 private-sector pro­ with budgets totalling $40 mil­ jects. lion, of which the SGC was CANADIAN FILM TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ' being requested to invest $7 Figures released July 17 re­ million. ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DE CINEMA-TELEVISION port an allocation of $2,365,144 "The state has allocated $10 to 75 projects between Feb. 20 - million towards cinema this July 13, 1984. Thirty two pro­ year," SGC CEO Nicole M. Bois­ jects ($322,323) fall under the vert told Cinema Canada, "just development category ; 16 pro­ think of what we could do with TWELFTH ANNUAL AWARDS jects ($1,656,200 ) in production ; $25 million a year !" 1984 7 projects ($73,996) in the cate­ The Fournier Report, which gory of distribution ; 17 special recomm ended the creation of ENTRY DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 14TH projects ($269,364 ), and three the SG C, also recommended an AWARD CATEGORIES projects ($43,260) in the market­ annual film-fina ncing budget ing category. of $25 million.

ADMINISTRATOR

1. Animation The Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre invites app lications 2. Audio-Visual Portable (6 projectors or less) for the Position of Administrator. 3. Audio-Visual Non-Portable (7 projectors or more.) Founded in 1967, the CFMDC (a non-profit a rts organization) 4. Commercial distributes and promotes the work of Canada's finest fil m makers. 5. Documentary - Uner 30 minutes Th e suc cessful candidate will : 6. Documentary - Over 30 minutes - administrate daily business affairs of the organization 7. Instructional/Educational - work with a nd be responsible for the Centre's staff of 5 - represent the Centre at various fil m showcases and forums 8. Sales Promotion and Public Relations - work with the elected Board of Directors 9. Music Video - prepare grant applications a nd ma inta in relations with 10. Television Drama - Under 30 minutes government granting bodies.

11. Television Drama - Over 30 minutes Qualifications for this position inc lude : 12. Television Variety - Under 30 minutes - experience in arts administration a nd fina nc ia l p lanning 13. Television Variety - Over 30 minutes - knowledge of the issues relating to independent fi lm production - well developed interpersona l, communication, a nd problem solving sk ills essentials.

Sala ry : $18,000 to $20,000 per annum. commensurate with exp erience a nd qualifications. Written app lications will be accepted until September 7, 1984. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND ENTRY FORMS WRITE OR CALL CFTA/ACCT., 32 FRONT STREET WEST, Plea se submit to : TORONTO, ONTARIO M5J 1CS. (416) 361-0153. Searc h Committee. Canad ian Filmmakers Distribut ion Centre, 299, Queen SI. West. Unit 204A. Toronto M5V 1 Z9 .

September 1984 - Cinema Canada/39 • CIME MAt; • CC A booklet reveals parties cultural strategies as election nears

OTTAWA - A small 16-page tain political candidates' posi­ the obvious public interest in stantial tax changes for artists munications and Regional. In­ bilingual booklet entitled tions on matters from the the future orientation of cultu­ and creators, the Liberal Partv dustrial Expansion portfolios "Election 1984 : Making Culture_ remaining recommendations of ral policy has now prompted of Canada, in a general stat~­ under one minister," the libe­ / Count" produced by the Cana­ Applebaum-Hebert to taxation the parties themselves to for­ ment of intent and principle, ral statement said, "more em­ dian Conference ofthe Arts has and the arts, was prepare"d for mulate their positions on cul­ promised "to continue to evolve phasis can be placed on the prompted the major political the arts service organization's ture. policies which assist those arts cultural sector through the . parties to make their intentions 1400 organizational and indi­ While the Conservatives and which can never be self-suffi­ economic programs dealing public on cultural policy, so far vidual members with an initial the NDP both specifically cient, as well as encouraging with the service industries and a neglected issue in the on­ printing of 4000 copies. But in addressed the booklet's nine commercially-viable arts acti­ tourism. This closer coHabo­ going election campaign. the face of members' demand, questions and promised in­ vities through various policy ration in marketing and pro­ The booklet, written in ques­ an additional printing of 5000 creased government funding instruments." motion will assist Canadian tion-and-answer form to ascer- copies has been run off, and for the arts as well as sub- "With the joining of the Com- cultural industries to flourish." Reviewing recent federal policies (the Broadcast Fund, CBC's 80% Canadian content levels by 1988, the Fih~ Policy, and the White Paper on Copy­ THEATRE, right), the Liberal statement MEl (HMI TYPE) COOLSEAL noted that the importance of COMPACT SOURCE DISCHARGE STUDIO the cultural industries was LAMPS FROM 200 TO 4000 WAITS demonstrated by its $11 billion IN 5600· KELVIN NEW PATENTED ETCHING TECHNIQUE Ie LOCATION 1981 share of the GNP - "-larger REDUCES LAMP STEM, SEAL AND than textiles, chemicals and CONTACT TEMPERATURES BY LI~ ...... aviation combined." UP TO 100·C A covering letter from Liberal MEl COOLSEAL IS ALSO AVAILABLE leader John Turner said "My WITH FLYING LEADS TO REDUCE MECHANICAL STRESS ON THE LAMP Government is committed to AND ISOLATE ELECTRICAL CONTACT assisting Canadian artists by IN A COOL AREA OF THE LUMINAIRE. providing financial and moral • support for their good work." QUARTZ and HARDGLASS For his part, Conservative HALOGEN LAMPS leader Brian Mulroney wel­ UP TO 10,000 WAITS 3200· KELVIN comed the opportunity to res­ • pond to the issues raised.by the FRESNEL LENSES 2-1/2" to 14" Canadian Conference of the Arts. The eight-page Conser­ EDlnNG LAMPS.• FCS AND FCR vative statement responded question-by-question to the CCA booklet, promising immediate consultation "with groups and individuals in the cultural sec­ tor on -all aspects of policy development." The statement expressed "some concern" over the recent fusion of the Communications portfolio with Regional Indus­ trial Expansion, adding that "until we know the full inten­ tion of this move ... it is difficult to compare our perspective with that of the current admi­ nistration." The Conservative statement promised new legislation in Telecommunications, Commu­ nications and Cultural Agen­ cies, reaffirmed commitment "without question to the arID's length principle" in federal funding support to individuals, groups and institutions, made a commitment to maintaining federal funding for cultui~J agencies and councils in line with GNP growth, as well as a commitment to "real growth in federal contributions" to cul­ tural growth and development. The Conservative statement affirmed a-commitment "to im­ proving the quality as well as the quantity of employmentoin' the cultural sector" both through federal -financial in­ volvement and corporate spon­ sorShip. Finally, the Conservative statement made a commitment to immediately i1;nplementipg the recent report of the Sul,}­ committee on Taxation of Visual and Performing Artists -(coni: on p. 41)

4O/Cinema Canada - September 1984 • C IN E MAti • Universal welcomes informative discussions - LOS ANGELES- William Soady, in Canada. Well, the lion's share taking place and will continue Film Arts . president of distribution for of that money stays in Canada at least until November. While Universal Pictures world-wide and there simply is no drain. the Majors are ready to talk and past general manager of These kinds of things can be with the Canadians, and to Universal's Toronto office, wel­ made clear through discus­ share certain information in 5 comes the discussions between sions," Cinema Canada was the hope of educating the gov­ the CMPDA and the Canadian told. ernment, "negotiating" is quite government initiated by the another matter. Soady empha­ As for the Majors tapping National Film and Video Policy. sized that he and others in into the fund, now available for similar positions in the Major the distribution of certain "There's a real need for all companies are worried about Canadian films through Tele­ 16/35 post-production types of information, and this the marketplace, not politics. film Canada, Soady is sceptical. is a good chance to be able to Despite preliminary talks with Television and feature The total amount, $1.7 mil­ educate the government about representatives of Telefilm lion, is so paltry next to the production the issues. It's easier to deal Canada a few years ago, the budgets used by the Majors with an informed government, nature of the negotiation pro­ in distribution that his only and these discussions will give cess remains unclear to him, as comment was, " If you need a us a chance to rectify certain do the objectives of such nego­ million, it's not worth it." , impressions. For instance, tiations. Perhaps these will be there's always a lot of talk about There seems to be.. however, clarified as assistant deputy 461 Church Street the dollar drain to the States disagreement on the nature of minister David Silcox visits the from the distribution of films the discussions which are Majors in late August. Toronto - Canada

was insufficient, without, how­ The NDP said it was com­ Parties' policies ever, specifying how much of mitted to increasing , federal M4Y 2C5 an increase an NDP govern­ funding for the arts by provid­ (cant. from p. 40) ment would provide. ing more funding at the com­ and Writers, and promised to munity level. As well, New seek advice from the commu­ In a one-page statement, the Democrats "would also take nity on the 'copyright revision NDP noted that "for several steps to limit as much as pos­ Telephone: 416-962-0181 consultation process. decades now, Canada's cultural sible the extent to which our While the New Democratic community has been troubled cultural activities are threat­ Party's specific answers to the by the threat of rapidly advanc­ ened by foreign domination," CCA booklet were not yet avail­ ing technology and foreign endorsing the principle that able to Cinema Canada by domination - both of which money generated in CanaBa 'presstime, the New Democrats represent an assault on the from cultural activities be used stated that the $1.2 billion capacity of Canadian to ... con­ to develop Canadian talent and federal cultural appropriation trol their own cultural c:iestiny." endeavors.

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September 1984 - Cinema Canada/41 • CINE MAti • Galaxie children's service to Satellite Network and Univer­ Canadian cable licensees. Ac­ sity Channel from th~t !ist. New round of CRTC pay-TV hearings to go cording to TVOntario, a spe­ According to the CommlSSIOn, cialty youth service, based on the Hospital Satellite Network OTTAW NHULL - The Cana­ render of Aim's license to serve the two main reasons for the the subscriber-discretionary by programming movies and dian Radio-television and Tele­ B.C. and the Yukon, Allarcom's July hearings. model prescribed by the Com_­ music videos was" clearly com­ communications Commission license to serve Alberta, Saskat­ Meanwhile, in the light of mission, would not generate petitive" with licensed Cana­ (CRTC) began a new round of chewan, Manitoba and the what the Commission terms enough revenue to render the dian discretionary services, public hearings in the National Northwest Territories, and Su­ "rapidly evolving industry con­ service financially viable. while the University Channel's Capital Region July 24 on the perchannel's license to serve ditions", the CRTC has tenta­ Rather than proceed with a "religious overtones ... could be continuing restructuring of Ontario. tively scheduled a mammoth call for applications for a Cana­ perceived as a religious ser­ Canadian pay-television. A fourth application by na­ public hearing for November dian youth program service, vice." The hearings will consider tional, general-interest licen­ to hear a number of applica­ the Commission in a public Sixteen U.S. specialty servi­ applications from English-lan­ see First Choice Canadian Com­ tions for satellite-to-cable net­ notice June 11 invited public ces remained eligible. These guage general-interest licen­ munications has requested the works for the distribution of comment on policy considera­ are: Cable News Network sees Aim Satellite Broadcasting Commission to amend its li­ new specialty programming tions underlying the develop­ (CNN), CNN Headline News, Corp., Allarcom Ltd., and Onta­ cense by redefining its service services. ment and distribution of such a The Nashville Network, The rio Independent Pay Television area from all of Canada to On­ service. In a rapid survey of the Arts and Entertainment Net­ Ltd. (Superchannei), for appro­ tario, Quebec and Atlantic Ca­ Earlier this year, the Com­ availability of youth program­ work, Financial News Network, val of the transfer of the pay nada only. mission, at the request of the ming in Canada (the four Cana­ The Weather Channel, The television assets of Allarcom to applicants, had adjourned a A related application by First dian national networks, the Learning Channel, Biznet, the a wholly-owned subsidiary public hearing in Hull on new Choice and Allarcom for a new four American nets and PBS, American Business Network, company, Allarcom Pay Televi­ specialty programming ser­ license to operate a joint ven­ plus BBM ratings for the Otta­ Country Music Television, Cable sion Ltd. (APT). As well, the vices. Among these was an ture, national, general interest wa-Hull region ), the Commis­ Satellite Public Affairs Network applicants are seeking the application by Roger Price for a pay service to be known as The sion found a familiar pattern of (C-Span), The Silent Network, Commission's approval of the specialty service to serve young Family Channel has been put highly popular but predomi­ The Professional Education amalgamation of Aim and On­ Canadians. Though Price's pro­ off until a public hearing in No­ nantly U.S. programming. Not­ Netwol'k, AP Newscable, Dow tario Superchannel with APT, posal was adjourned due to vember. ing that the "most critical fac­ Jones Cable News, Reuters and the issuance of a license to insufficient funding, he urged tor" in whether Canadians will News View, and United Press APT for an English-language According to the Commis­ the Commission to encourage be able to produce and deliver International Custom Cable. general interest pay-TV network s;on, the launch of discretionary the development and distribu­ a high-quality programming In principle, a 17th service, serving British Columbia, Al­ services in the fall of this year tion of programming for Cana­ service is funding, the Com­ Lifetime, is still eligible and berta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, "and the undesirability of con­ dian youth. Price was backed mission invited the relevent may be approved for carriage the Yukon, and the North West tinued uncertainty in.. the by TVOntario which, in past industries and the public to on Canadian cable after Sept. 1, Territories. Such a license structure of the general interest years, has experienced finan­ determine "the need and bene­ unless the Canadian Health would be issued upon the sur- pay-television industry" were cial difficulties in marketing its fits to Canadian society" of Network Ltd. h ealth and life­ establing such a service. The style service, whose application Commission also asked for was adjourned at the Jan. 24 comment on "whether such a' specialty services hearing, service warrants a modifica­ amends and completes its fi­ tion to the Commission's poli­ nancial proposal by that date. cies with respect to the carriage of specialty programming." Following receipt of com­ Cogeco bid rebuffed ments, relevant studies or sur­ veys on the adequacy of Cana­ OTTAWA - The Canadian Miracle Workers dian youth programming ser­ Radio-television and Tele­ vices, the Commission will communications Commission issue proposed criteria for the (CRTC) has returned the Cogeco establishment of such a service Group's application for a license killed, cost effective crews and tailor­ and call for applications in to operate a second private time for the Novem ber hearing. French-language television net­ Smade agreements make NABET 700 the Other applications to be work in Quebec requesting heard at the November hearing additional financial informa­ preferred choice for making pictures really include : tion, Cinema Canada has move. We can take the hard labor out of your • an application for a license learned. for a network to distribute a On May 16 Cogeco chairman next feature, commercial or documentary. performing arts pay-TV service. Henri Audet at a Montreal press In a public notice June 28, the conference had announced Commission gave notice that that the group had serious All film and videotape crafts including an application had been re­ financial backing for the second ceived and called for further private network proposal. The camera arejust a telephone call away. We're applications, noting, however, idea of a second French net­ that "the Commission has not work had received then­ the broadcast professionals - and we have reached any conclusion with Communications minister PANACAM respect to the viability of such a Francis Fox's official blessing the only experienced feature unit service ;" the month previous. in Canada. • an application in response So far the CRTC has issued for a call for a national, satellite­ no public statements on the to-cable, interfaith religious second French net proposal, programming service; nor has the Commission called So whether it's a full crew or a technician on • the First Choice/Allarcom for applications. a daily, our 24-hour hotline is at your service. application for a national, ge­ However, CRTC chairman neral interest pay-TV service to Andre Bureau confirmed that a be known as "The Family call for applications would be Channels" ; made, according to a Canadian Call us at 416/536-4827 • an application from Star Press report July 27. Bureau Channel Services Ltd., originally said the CRTC would accord scheduled for a Halifax hearing great importance to the finan­ earlier this summer, but ad­ cial viability of second, or third, journed at the applicant's re­ French-language private net­ quest, to operate a pay-TV net­ work proposals. work directed primarily to a Bureau added that "the Com­ NABET700 family and children's audience. mission intends to proceed Association of Film Craftsmen In a related decision June 11 with circumspection in hand­ National Association ofBroadcast Employees & Technicians still in the area of specialty pro­ ling the establishment of a gramming, the Commission, in a second, private French-lan­ 1179A King Street West, Studio 102, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6K 3C5 periodic review of eligible guage network or third com­ non-Canadian specialty servi­ mercial network, whose im- ces, has removed the Hospital (cant. to p. 63)

42/Cinema Canada - September 1984 • CIME MAti • CRTe tries new forms of consultation, creates new problems

OTT AW A - The Canadian Ra­ present consultative process Furthermore, sources told While no list of participants Wacko, Michael Donovan, Mi­ dio-television and Telecom­ worries me." That impression Cinema Canada that the CRTC at the meetings was issued by chael Spencer, Ralph Ellis and munications Commission's would not be fully dispelled by itself, in order to hold the first the Commission, the produ­ Denis Heroux. (CRTC) two recent brainstor­ the Montebello meeting. meeting with broadcasters, cers' session was attended by : ming sessions in as many was obliged to reschedule up­ Ralph Thomas, Eda Lishman, According to the CRTC com­ Not would it be felt only by months with Canadian broad­ coming license renewal hear­ David Perlmutter, Peter Mor­ muniques following the meet­ Francophones. casters and film and television ingswith some broadcasters so timer, Stephen Roth, Claude ings, both broadcasters in June producers may have created "Why is the CRTC being so as not to create the impression Fournier, Michel Houle, Mi­ and producers in July found more problems than the regu­ secretive about these meet­ of having "e1( parte relation­ chael Hirsch, Michael McMil­ the weekend think-tanks "use­ latory agency intended. ings ?", asked one executive ships" with applicants only lan, Robin Spry, Peter Pearson, ful and expressed the hope from a Toronto-based profes­ months before their broadcast­ Judith McCann, William Lit­ that other meetings of this type The Commission's attempt sional association. ing licenses were to be renewed. wack, Robert Linnell, Wendy would be held." to study the issue of Canadian content "in an atmosphere free of existing regulatory con­ straints" - by holding two closed meetings in Montebello over the weekends of June 23-24 with selected Anglophone broadcasters and July 21-22 with Canadian producers - while deemed a success both by the Commission and parti­ cipants, managed to cause anxiety among excluded Fran­ cophones, generated an Access to Information request for the documents relevant to the broadcasters' meeting. aroused the suspicion of uninvited craft unions, and, last but not least, has caused the CRTC's own lawyers to examine the legal proprieties of holding such meetings.

Restricted in its information­ gathering by the bureaucratic formality of the hearings pro­ cess, the CRTC, as its chairman, Andre Bureau, stated in a To­ ronto speech last March, has been seeking ways to coordi­ nate the development of a long-term strategic plan inter­ connecting the development of the broadcasting and film and television production indus­ tries over the next five years. Holding periodic brainstor­ ming sessions with key mem­ bers of each industry seemed one way towards a long-term plan, in part due to satisfactory results from similar sessions on Canadian television program definition last fall ' and last spring.

It was the intention of the CRTC to keep the meetings informal by keeping neither minutes nor transcribed re­ cords of the sessions, only a joint · communique at meet­ ing's end to summarize the key points discussed. Keeping the meetings informal also meant that the participants agreed not to discuss the meetings publicly beyond the Commis­ sion's own communique. While participants, speaking off the record, conveyed that nothing sensitive had transpired at the meetings themselves, an im­ pression of secretiveness was generated by the meetings, not only to journalists faced with "No comments" from broad­ casters and producers, but among Francophones, one of whom noted, in a document obtained by Cinema Canada, that "the fact the Francophone -u sector is being ignored in the I I I I l September 1984 - Cinema CanadaJ43 • CIME MAt; • Telefilm releases projected Fund figures

MONTREAL - One of the recur­ monies made available to impossible before presstime. rent rumors in the industry is producers since the Fund's in­ The document allows no that despite the ample monies ception, via other government serious analysis, therefore, of available through the Cana­ grants, a n d includes break­ the situation at Telefilm Canada dian Broadcast Program Dev­ downs of commitments from and the rumored short-fall in elopment Fund at Telefilm public and private broad­ financing. Canada, producers are having casters. Finally, it includes In its first year of operation, a difficult time completing the sums coming from private in­ Telefilm has signed contracts financing of the films and pro­ vestors, deferments by pro­ on 23 French projects Itotal I-IEARTSTAR grams. "The missing third", as ducers and from pre-sales and budgets: $48,965,431 ; Fund the short-fall is often refened foreign funding. $9,203,483 ) and 32 English proj­ to, is the sum which must be An analysis of the document ects (total budgets : $41,711,253; Productions generated by the producer reveals that 100% of the finan­ Fund $13,048,651). It has ac­ once Telefilm loans and the Cing seems to be in place in all cepted another 18 French proj­ Limited broadcaster's contribution are cases. No "missing third" is evi­ ects (total budgets: $12,226,229; in place. Producers are sup­ dent because in all categories­ Fund $3,602,131) and 15 English posed to find additional fun­ drama, variety, children's pro­ projects Itotal budgets $31,564,- ding through pre-sales to fo­ grams - the various sources of 428 ; Fund $10,337,393. Another reign broadcasters or pay-TV, finanCing combined add up to 18 projects in both languages the sale of ancillary rights, or the total needed. Asked about are pending. through foreign sales of thea­ the document, Andre Picard, Producers' projections Iwhich John Danylldw trical rights. In some cases, Director of Production at must show fuJI finanCing in there may even be domestic Telefilm, told Cinema Canada order to apply to Telefilml indi­ 416-596-8305 theatrical rights. that the figures are based on cate that the National Film In a recent four-page docu­ the projections submitted to Board is expected to contribute ment entitled "Status of Appli­ Telefilm by the various pro­ $620,000 toward French proj­ cations", Telefilm' Canada gives ducers in their financial plans. ects and $1,525,583 towards Producer/Production exhaustive figures covering all No distinction is made between English projects, while the the projects it has handled committed funds and those Societe Generale in Quebec Supervisor from July 1, 1983 through June monies which a producer puts in $3,500,675 for French 30, 1984, The projects are divi­ hopes to be able to generate. projects. Educational televi­ ded into three groups: those Picard further stated that pro­ sion participates with invest­ with which Telefilm has signed ducing the above document ments of $882,000 toward contracts, those which it has takes two days each month to French programming and 439 WELLInGTOn 5t w., accepted, and those which are prepare, and that to furnish $355,000 toward English. Grants TORonTO,Ont mSV-1E7 still being studied. Cinema Canada with a break­ and "other" revenues add up to The document would appear down of information on com­ $14,222,156. to be an exhaustive analysis of mitted funds only would be (cant. on p. 45) SCENE IN THE RIGHT PLACES From historic settings to colourful ethnic streets, Toronto can offer the right place for your scene. As well as terrific locations, w e have: - superb production companies - top-notch film crews - modern studios - state-of-the-art post-production facilities - excellent transportation services - first-rate hotel accommodations - fast permit and approval . assistance So, if you're planning to film in our city, w hy not give us·a call. Together we11 m ake a scene - in the right places. TORONTO FILM LIAISON N aish McHugh, C ity of Toronto Planning a nd Development . Department 18th Floor, East Tow er, C ity Hall Toronto, Ontario M5H 2N2 Canada (416) 947-7570 TORONTO

44/Cinema Canada - September 1984 • C IN E MAt; • da-Algeria agreement was si­ Italy, France, West Germany left the Communications port­ Algeria signs treaty gned by Fox and Algeria minis­ and the U.K. as countries with folio for that of International Documentarians ter of Culture and Tourism, which Canada has film copro­ Trade. for co-productions Abdelmadjid Meziane. duction' agreements. form Film Caucus Under the agreement, copro­ MONTREAL - Algeria has be­ In the cabinet shuffle follow­ come the seventh country with duced films wiII be eligible for ing John Turner's swearing-in Telefilm figures TORONTO - In response to which Canada has signed film funding under the Canadian as prime minister June 30, inadequate government sup­ (cant. from p. 44) coproduction agreements. Broadcast Program Develop­ Lumley became Communica­ port and limited distribution Announced July 14 by Com­ ment, and all other film-finan­ tions minister in addition to On the broadcasting side, potential, a group of local docu­ munications minister Edward cing and tax incentive measures being minister of Industry, CBC/Radio-Canada is expected mentary filmmakers have Lumley and International Trade available in both countries. Commerce and Regional Eco­ to participate to the tune of organized themselves into an minister Francis Fox, the Cana- Algeria joins Belgium, Israel, nomic Expansion, while Fox $18,518,803 in opposition to the ad-hoc committee to promote private sectors' $4,479,970. Pro­ documentary production. ducers are ready to invest a total of $11,547,001, while other Rudi Buttignol, chairperson Canadian sources are as fol­ of the Canadian Independent lows: pay-TV $3,161,700; dis­ Film Caucus, says that one of tribution $2,606,635; sponsors the concerns of the CIFC is to SKYCAlVI $1,808,000, deferments $3,000,- "'remind the film community of and 257; and private investments the neglect in the documen­ $5,269,960. Foreign investment tary area." in Telefilm projects totals of $43,506,788 divided almost STEADlCAlVI evenly between French and Buttignol said the documen­ English programs. The break­ tary was not an industry front­ in Canada from down of the foreign invest­ runner and thus got little ment is as follows: co-produc­ recognition. The independent tions $8,253,458; broadcasters filmmaker has very limited $21,711,961; and distribution resources at his disposal. "The Steadiman" $13,541,369. At present the CIFC is an These figures are projections informal group with approxi­ by the producers and no dis­ mately 15 members. However Bob or Dave CroDe tinctions can be made between Buttignol envisions a committee actual commitments and those with a strong lobbying voice revenues the producer hopes and the ability to shape future to be able to generate. policy. A great combination for enhancing the picture as well as saving time and money - the Steadicam With Ontario likes Canadian Content the Steadiman Artistic framing, level horizOns, per­ (cant. from p. 33) available; over 6 out of 10 peo­ ple aged 18-29 said there were fectly timed moves, wobble-free stops, beautiful fluid Among those receiving cable, too few Canadian programs. photographic compositions and the olympian "well over half' of those with­ Three quarters of those sur­ out converter service, said they veyed said the Canadian Radio­ endurance for repeated ~es achieved over seven did not watch enough televi­ television and Telecommuni­ years of demand.ing practice as committed owner­ sion, were satisfied with the cations Commission (CRTC) programming received or "should concentrate primarily operators. were not interested in addi­ on improving the quality of tional programming. Canadian programs available:· Among cable (but not pay) Given a forced choice between 82 Documentaries 14 Features 61 TV Commercials subscribers, about half said "better" and "more", "a large they were satisfied with existing majority" would give priority including programming, did not watch to improved quality. enough television, or were not The evidence is, the report interested in pay-TV's program­ notes, "that Ontario residents ming. About 1 in 3 non-pay also at the minimum support subscribers cited the cost of existing Canadian content le­ pay-television service as the vels with quite a substantial major reason for not subscri­ percentage in favor of quanti­ bing. tative increases." SedUced Over half (53%) of cabled res­ In attitudes towards the pondents felt the cost of cable availability of U.S. and foreign service was about right, while programming, Northern Ontario "'a very substantial majority" residents (1 in 4) were more Mrs. Boffel f?»~~ . expressed satisfaction with the likely to say too few U.S. pro­ cP Clan of The Cave Bear clarity of TV sound and picture grams were available, while 6 received. out of 10 Metro Toronto resi­ #~ ~ '!'be LaTAh .. In terms of the kinds of tele­ dents said there were too few {cP .v,ye:ps vision programs Ontario resi­ foreign programs from coun­ .~\....: dents said they would like to tries other than the U.S. ~\~~ Evergreen see more often, preferences While 54% of the population ~ were as follows : documen­ felt it was not at all important to 1,~'9 taries/ educational programs make new channels available, (19 % of population), feature the "vast majority" (76%) would films (19 %), sports (13 %), variety prefer to see this done by estab­ (11 %), popular drama (10 %), lishing new Canadian channels news or current affairs (9 %), rather than by importing U.S . performing arts (5%) and chil­ channels. "There is no substitute for experience" dren's (4 %) . The survey results are the While perceptions varied as second part of a study of Onta­ to how much available pro­ rio television services. Part I, an gramming was Canadian, two­ inventory of services available STEADlCAlVI/SKYCAlVI SERVICES OF CANADA, thirds of Ontario residents be­ across the province, should be lieve that fewer than 30;;' of available b~' mid-August, a 400 W.A.LJiER RD., TORONTO • (416) 968-1322 programs available are Cana­ ministry of Transportation and dian. Over half said there were Communications spokesperson too few Canadian programs told Cinema Canada.

September 1984 - Cinema Canada/45 ".II.II.II.II.II.II.II.II.II.II.".II.II.n.II.II ... II.II.II.II.II.II.II.II.II.1I-" = • • C'IME MAti • ! • I EVERYTHING'S MOVING i Festival of Festivals highlights Canada i AT PRISMA I Roger Lemelin, Brian Moore • • TORONTO - The Janus-face of what Calrkson called "the finest • • the Canadian film industry will in current filmmaking in the and Mordecai RichieI'. • • be profiled as never before by country." • Border Crossings: The • • this year's Festival of Festivals Riding the crest of a redis­ film work of expatriate Cana­ i Producers Claude Godbout and i (Sept. 6-15) as the Trade Forum covered popularity of Canadian dians Sidney J. Furie (A Dan­ • Marcia Couelle are pleased to • (Sept. 9-12J explores increased cinema, Clarkson unveiled the gerous Age, The Leather Boys) j ~ ~ opportunities for feature film, results of a poll, commissioned Ted Kotcheff (Duddy Kravitz, ! announce that Louise Ranger has ! television and documentary by the Festival from a survey of Outback) ; Ivan Reitman (Meat­ coproduction, while the Fes­ 150 industry, media and aca­ balls, Ghostbusters),. Daryl ; moved to Prisma as of August 1st. i tival's Northern Lights pro­ demic opinion-leaders, rating Duke (Silent Partner, Payday),. ; With 20 years of experience in film ; gram mounts the most com­ Canada's 10 most popular films. Jan Kader (Lies My Father Told prehensive retrospective of Topping the list was Claude Me, Adrift),. Claude Jutra's ! production, Louise Ranger joins ! Canadian cinema ever. Jutra's 1971 Man oncle Antoine, Toronto-made television film, If international coproduc­ followed by Don Shebib's Goin' Dreamspeaker,. Genevieve i the company as general director. ! tion, particularly with the U.S. Down The Road (1970) ; Fran­ Bujold (Isabel, Coma),. Carole ! ~ (the one country with which cis Mankiewicz's 1979 Les bons Laure (La tete de Normande ! ! Canada does not have a copro­ debarras,. Ted Kotcheffs 1974 St-Onge, Sortez vos mou­ ! Prisma's offices are also moving. As i ! ! duction treaty) is expected to Apprenticeship of Duddy Kra­ choirs),. and Donald Suther­ ! of September 3 rd, Prisma will be ! dominate the three-day indus­ vitz: Michel Brault's 1974 Les land (Act of the Heart, The Eye try conference held at the Park ordres,. Phillip Borsos's The of the Needle). i located at Place du Parc, 5253 Park I Plaza Hotel - the Quebec film Grey Fox, 1982; with double • Buried Treasures: ! ! producers' association having ties for Jean Beaudin's J.A Avenue. Lesser known Canadian films ! ! just before also held its annual Martin photographe and Pierre such as Rene Bonniere's Ama­ ! ! congress around the coproduc­ Perrault's Pour la suite du i nita Pestilensi Gordon Shep­ ! tion theme - this is above. all, monde, as well as Gilles Carle's ! And production at Prisma is moving • pard's Eliza's Horoscope; the year in which Festival 84 La vraie nature de Bernadette Jean-Claude Labrecque's Les ; right along too, with new features will hail Canadian cinema on a and Don Owen's 1964, Nobody I vautoursi Andre Forcier's Bar scale never before seen · at a Waved Goodbye. Canada's 10 salon; Gilles Carle's Red; Larry ! and series for 1984-85. ! Canadian film festival. Best will be screened as part of ! ! Kent's Sweet Substitute,. Mi­ ! i As Festival of Festivals direc­ Northern Lights, prior to going. chel Brault's Entre la mer et ! tor Wayne Clarkson unveiled on a cross-country tour ! l'eau douce; Jacques Leduc's ! i at a press conference Aug. 1, throughout the fall. On est loin du soleili Derek i ! not only will the seven-part Northern Lights's other pro­ May's Mother Tongue; Allan ! Les Productions Prisma ! Northern Lights series' ZOO titles grams are: King's Running Away Back­ ! 1100 rue Bleury, ! make Canadian film the Fes­ • Eyes Write: An examina­ wards; Bernard Gosselin's Le ! ! tival's ' centerpiece, but a new tion of the problems of adapting ! Montreal (Quebec) H2Z 1 N4 i ca not it Renald it Thomas ; Don program, Perspective Canada, literary works to the screen, Shebib's Between Friends; and ! Tel. : (514) 866-3568 ! will, this year and in future, featuring Canadian writers and • ! offer a permanent window to screenwriters Margaret Atwood, (cont. to p. 63) .".11."."."."."."."."."."."."."."."."."."."."."."."./1.".".! Roger Michael

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48/Cinema Canada - September 1984 • C IN E MAt; • Ampex ACE computer editing U.S., where he programmed a ductions in Edmonton hosted a system. synthesizer display for the June tea party in the 37-room SHOOT ALBERTA annual computer show in mansion which will be the set by Linda Kupecek • • Chicago, working with the for The Saint Game next year ... • With Canadian Odeon now midi, a new instrument, and The first women's newsletter mercia!. Also, Solitudes, a series Two projects shooting in part of the Cineplex Corpora­ hooking up seven synthesizers born of the networking group Alberta have altered their produced by Keg Productions tion, the district offices in Cal­ to all. IBM computer. "The formed at the Banff Television course slightly. An enforced (50% owned by CFCN) is a gary are closed. But the local personal computer of the Festival is now making the break in the schedule of Snow­ finalist in the Wildscreen '84 Canadian Odeon management future will have a synthesizer rounds, penned by Natalie balls and a new name for Isaac Festival in Britain. is still in place: Chris Van outlet and everyone will be Edwards of Toronto, and Littlefeathers, now called Meanwhile, CFCN's 10,000 organized by the producers of Drastic Measures, affects one Snellen berg has become super­ able to play synthesizers by sq. ft soundstage, Studio III, visor and Ed Svihura is the then ," says Bhatia, who has Calgary.. East of the bOI'der, company in a major way, the has played host to several com­ North Hill Cinema manager... won both an AMPIA award and the Yorkton Short Film and other only in title. mercials, and CFCN's hardware Electronic music w.hiz Amin Video Festival is gearing up for Snowballs, a ski comedy pro­ the Roland Synthesizer Com­ complement has been upgraded Bhatia (of West Track Sound in Oct. 31 - Nov. 4 for the Golden duced by Ryckman Films of petition in the U.S., for his ori­ with an Ampex ADO and an Calgary) has returned from the Sheaf Awards. Calgary, has been rescheduled' ginal music ... Saint Game Pro- around the ski sequences and cast availability. May blizzards at Sunshine Village Ski Resort near Banff prevented the stunt ski team headed by freestyle skier Peter Judge from complet­ ing their scenes. Also, star Jack­ son Davies has returned to Van­ couver for a role in the Tom Selleck picture, Runaway. Snowballs is scheduled to resume August 15, says produ­ cer Larry Ryckman, with some second unit helicopter shooting in June. Ironically, in July, the ·Alberta-originated production hopes to fly to New Zealand to pick up the ski sequences. Co-writer and publicist Alex Tadich reports that most of the snow sequences have been completed, except for the stunts, with interiors in Cal­ gary to be filmed at the end of August Frank Griffiths is direc­ tor of sound on the production, and Mike Baker is co-producer. • Drastic Measures, the story of a young Metis headed towards a Bar Mitzvah, is produced by Lauron International Inc. of Toronto in association with the King Motion Picture Corpora­ tion of Edmonton. The drama, budgeted at $2.2 million, is directed by Les Rose, who also wrote the script with Barry Pearson. Richard Hudolin is art director. So far, the production has been steadily on schedule and under budget, with only one day of weather cover. Locations include Whyte Avenue in Ed­ Focus on this scenic Canadian monton (which was blocked off for the weekend for con­ version to a 1950's set), Elk Island and the parks area east province of sunny skies, low costs, of Edmonton. Brian Ault of Superchannel (one of the participants) reports and tax-saving advantages. that Will Korbutt, the Edmon­ ton schoolboy cast as the lead, For your next important shoot, how about Alberta? The We'll help you find the perfect location in the in credibly Isaac Littlefeathers, "looks sen­ va ried and scenic terrain of A lberta , It's all you rs for the sationaL" Bette Chadwick scenery is fabulous, the climate superb and the price is (who worked with Ross Clydes­ right! Things like accommodation, food, gas, retail and asking with a call to the Alberta Film Industry dale of Canadian Casting Asso­ travel expenses are all f ree of provincial tax - and Alberta Development Office at (403) 427-2005. ciates and Diane Rogers of is the only province in Canada that doesn't eollect sales Bill Marsden, Director Calgary on casting) says the tax, Film Industry Development local actors are doing very Another big ptus? Clear A lberta skies arid extra hours of welL "\ hope it e ncourages Alberta Economic Development daily sunlight can shorten your shooting schedule more other companies to cast 9th Floor, Pacific Plaza locally," says Chadwick considerably, 10909 Jasper Avenue The Alberta Advantage shows up big on the bottom line Edmonton, Alberta AIl:rJ~a • for production costs . T5J 3M8 C~NADA ••• CFCN Television in Calgary was won a Bessie Award for its Meetcha at the Pickle com-

September 1984 - Cinema Canada/47 • CIME MAti • View from Vancouver: Exec producers and Telefilm VANCOUVER - "If you start this country, and those half­ makers to force an acknowled­ filmmaking community. As with a certain professional getting a lot of the 'executive million-dollar investments are gement of local producers as Chris Bruyere, who had en­ organization, put it, "We have producers' involved, and if you now coming to seem normal, full members of the national countered obstacles in dealing (cont. on p. 49) start getting a lot of these big, but two years ago when the heavy types coming in and CFDC invested $100,000 that saying, 'I'm going to do this for was considered a monumental you: it's impossible to have the contribution. It does no good production value that you whatsoever to have a weak, Rim Production Insurance want, because what you're fragile production that wobbles doing is going into $2, $8 mil­ through and then has no distri­ lion films. All those people bution, sales, exploitation Insurance Specialists for want a lot of money. We've got capability wh'ltsoever. to stay small - less than half a "I think that you have every million - and try to do it our­ right. all of you, to be angry, CANADIAN & INTERNATIONAL selves without involving the and to keep being angry at me, so-called 'big executive produ­ and I give you carte blanche to RLMS cers' from the East." keep whacking me around the Chris Bruyere, producer­ head in decisions where you Since 1965 writer of the soon-to-be-relea­ think I'm wrong. God knows I sed feature Walls, allowed didn't come into this job with himself a small surge of emo­ white smoke coming out of my tion at what was becoming an chimney. We want these pro­ Michael Devine & Assocs. Ltd. ever more feeling-charged ductions to be as big, and as gathering. The B.C. Film Indus­ strong, and as healthy as possi­ try Association IBCFIA) had ble. I can assure you that we earlier this summer put on a will never say that you've got to 3901, JEAN-TALON OUEST Work Opportunities Seminar work with somebody from at the NFB Distribution Office Toronto or you've got to work MONTREAL, QUEBEC H3R 2G4 on Georgia Street, and Chris with somebody from Edmon­ Give us a call- we speak your language! was on a panel that also includ­ ton. ed Merv Campone, Ron Hud­ "What we're saying to y.ou, 1-514-735-2579 1-514-739-3161 son, Jack Darcus, Katherine though, is that as you apply, as Telex 05-27317 Neilsen, Ron Keeler, George you bring your projects in, we Chapman, and Elvira Lount, want to see them with real fielding questions from an au­ muscle. We want to see them dience of about 60 local film with the kind of financial, people. The purpose of the marketing, sales participation seminar was to allow local pro­ that is not just a dribble out of ducers and others to question CBC, a dribble out of us, and various industry authorities on then a bunch of fiddles for the how best to raise the amount of rest of the money." indigenous filmmaking on the But both panelists and au­ West Coast. Before the morning dience members remained coffee break we heard presen­ concerned that in practice, in tations from Lorraine Goode, order to obtain Telefilm finan­ liaison officer for the Film Ca­ cing, and even a letter of intent nada Center in Los Angeles, from a major broadcaster, one and none other than Peter had to sacrifice much or all Pearson, director of Telefilm's creative control, and invariably Broadcast Fund. to an Easterner. One person The fireworks started when whose opinion ran counter to Elvira Lount, introducing her­ the prevailing mood was writer­ self on the panel, attacked producer Merv Campone, who Pearson for his eastern chauvi­ protested, "Why is it automatic nism. She even brought her that you lose control when you own feature project, Samuel negotiate a package deal? Why Lount, into the spotlight: "We is that automatic? That's a very can do the show, and we can Canadian thing. It's a combined do it without Toronto. We on operation; you cannot do a the West Coast are capable, film by yourself." and everybody's got to stand Local writer-director Jack up and say that !" Darcus stressed the importance Pearson, a casual and enga­ and good sense of seeking the ging speaker, would not dis­ advice, tapping the expertise of cuss any particular case in pu­ people in Toronto or New York blic, but stressed the need for a or London experienced in production to be supervised by large-scale projects, and not someone with experience committing oneself to any deal SIXTY YEARS OF GREAT ENTERTAINMENT commensurate with the budget before understanding the con­ and scale of the project. He sat sequences. Director John Ju­ at the front of the 100-or-so­ liani, cutting a regal figure in seat NFB theater in red wind­ his blue greatcoat from the breaker and yellow T-shirt, back of the theater, suggested and with much vocal modula­ that perhaps a f\umber of local tion, and not without a certain producers could get together Kermit-the-Frog lovableness, to function collectively as exe­ even, said, "I suppose we're cutive producer to one of their really after a kind of excellence, number's projects. we're after everybody succeed­ . By the end of the day nothing ing. We're aft~r succeeding specific had been resolved, with the best people we can which anyway was not the in­ possibly get. When we put half tent of the seminar, but as BCFIA a million bucks on the table president Robert Nichol sug­ we're putting out more money gested, it was the first step in than any government has in­ what could become a concerted vested ever in any project in action by West Coast film-

48/Cinema Canada - September 1984 • C IN E MAt; • executive producer of the vi­ under his eyes and his mouth plained to th.em that we'd have broadcaster, Te lefilm found it View from Vancouver deo drama The Gift, the very set in an attitude of listening to gamble because qe didn't much easier to go along, espe­ (cont·from p. 48) first West Coast project to re­ and deliberate reservation of have all the elements in place cialll· in light of the budget" to get everybody working for ceive Telefilm support. The speech. as far as marketing went, but which \Vas onh'mumble mum­ us. It's not the American money Gift is a Christmas story about How did Telefilm become this was our chance to be the blety-mumble thousand dol­ we're looking for, or the Ame­ a young half-Indian girl who involved in The Gift? first to gain access to the Fund. lars. (Like other local produ­ rican productions coming up has a crush on an Oblate priest. "How we got it on was, r We had a very marketable idea, cers, Merv has found that tele: here. We have to be in back of "The Gift was turned down a went to a meeting. I was line but r didn't have any presales, I vision markets in the u.s . are our own independent feature couple of years ago by the na­ producing for The Elegant hadn't had time. They made a unimpressed with production market, and there has to be tional CBC drama department, Appetite show for BCTV, and very courageous production value per se and won't even stress on more cooperation who felt that it was too schmalt­ there was a reception for Peter decision when they decided to screen shows costing less than here." zy. I don't know what they Pearson when he first was go along with it. They came a million dollars an hour. expected a Christmas story to appointed. He came out and aboard not just as broadcasters; Therefore Canadian indepen­ be, but that's what they think." said, 'We want ideas. We want r went up there asking them to dents must fib about, or at least • Merv's voice was soft, control­ to invest in films: and I'm sit­ be my partners, so they are not bring up, the subject of Merv Campone, vice president led, his face almost lugubrious ting there thinking of The Gift. coproducers." With such a sub­ budget.) of Paragon Pictures, is writer- with semicircules etched 50 I approached BCTV and ex- stantial commitment from the The Gift was made. and without Telefilm's insisting on an eastern executive producer. "I had the background that they could rely on," said Merv. "I guess maybe that had a lot to CINEG IE INC. do with them looking kindly upon the application." MORE MOVIES AND TVSERIES CHOOSE A Merv is indeed a local indus­ try stalwart: he has written 100% CANADIAN-OWNED COMPLETION GUARANTOR and produced almost 150 tele­ vision programs, created the \ OUR FEES QUALIFY FOR THE 75% CANADIAN SERVICES CA TEGORY ! series Leo and Me, and has even had a musical he wrote, Jubile, taken to Broadway. Executi~~~u!r~Rii~ Cooper, pr~~~~~y~a~i~e~ . ~u~sa produ~r!~~~!~alker , "Everybody wants your pic­ Pierre David Gary Hannam ur ture to succeed who is involved Producers: David Patterson, with it," said Merv. "If you can Peter Kroonenburg DRAW Director: Raphael Zielinski accept that, you can accept the Produced by Ronald Cohen rest of it. If you're going to go ST. LOUIS SQUARE Executive Producer- Harold Greenberg DOIN'TIME with a green director, you've Produced by Bruce Mallen and Producers : Robert Langevin got to have a very experienced and Richard Sadler George Mendeluk COUNTRY WIFE ~Prodl.H:ed by AI.n eennett e •• cutlve producer Jorn Wlnth.r Produced and Direc ted executive producer. If you're by John Thomson going with a very inexperienced THE IRISH R.M. LA SAGA DES GLORIEUX Executive Producer- Malcolm Silver executive producer - God, Produced by Chris Neame have a qualified director and THE. ENZO FERRARI THE SLIM DlJSTY MOVIE Produced an(j Ol rec lerJ n 'y writer. It just makes' sense." GUARDIAN Yves Hene rl Produced by Kent Chadwick For beginners who are having Pr oduced by Robert Cooper truble Merv advised, "Reach for the phone fast. I'd phone HI! CHAMPION THE HAIRDRESSERS THE SECRET DIARY Annie's Coming Out me for a script or production. Produced by Yves Hebert Produced by Renee Perlmutter Produced by Don Murray OF SIGMUND FREUD line Producer Richard Baker Produced by Peer Oppenheimer I'd phone Tom 5handel. I'd and Wendy Hyland phone anybody, I'd phone Peter HILLARY CLIMBING CHRONIQUE DES ANNEES 60 THE PAMPEL-MOUSE SHOW Pearson." He lifted the hand­ JOSKE'S THUMB Produced by Claude Bonin set. "There it is." Produced by Mike Gill NOBODY Merv himself has been willing MAKE5MECRY to make sacrifices, along with ;\N EVENING ;\T MCYI1-IEI~ his partner, Paragon president Ron Hudson, in order to estab· THE IMPROV I~()])E lish Paragon Pictures and an­ TERRYTHE~ other releasing company which THE SETILEMENT RIEN QU'UN JEU will distribute films interna­ SONATINE FOX tionally. STORY "We have a project right now THE NUTCRACKER which we're hoping to develop PHAR LAP which is well over $6 million, - A FANTASY ON ICE but we're trying to put together that deal with international ,!Jj~"'" ~~-'I.r.Ioil - GINGER MEGGS THE HOUNDS CURTfIINS OF NOTRE DAME coproducers. I don't know how ;mAL'C'\!(; much control we'll still have CIIATWIU'S VERDICT Sl LATITUDE 55 TITLE SHOT after it, but whatever it is we're going to make our mark and 1ff~4 0" Iljll'11JI~'11ffJ(_:1t we're going to own part of that picture. Whether I produce it or exec produce it or direct it or write it or I'm involved at all, whether I'm an extra driving a taxi - I've done that before - I don't care, as long as this com­ nnounce pany establishes itself as an leased to a open - international production house in the truest sense." We ~:~s otf\Ce \s nop~ E\ysees, There you have it. The execu­ our des Cham tive producer who has made at120 av .. good with the national film 7 5008 pan/s~) 359-99-90 bank, without relinquishing Iii any creative control, is now e\ephone \ ______ready to put that control on the line to penetrate the interna­ tional market But what about' more home­ spun . filmmaking, where a group of people gets together (cant. on p. 50)

September 1984 - Cinema Canada/49 • C IN E MAti • above-the-line costs are quite of the smaller budget 7 Tom answered without had a saluta'ry influence on View from Vancouver high. You have to make a lot of "I want to say this:' said thinking : "Get a script." what might appear in some (cont· from p. 49) money to pay off your investors, Michael, "Telefilm has been ways to be a filmmaking rabble. with some 'equipment and an so you need a star. Every step of great." • If some of these producers, so idea and does a show 7 Do they the way, for every extra dollar "It's the script," said Tom. Is Telefilm too tough ? The passionate about their projects, exist, and do they have a crack you put on the screen, there's "The script has always opened question is of course beyond rail against any obstacle - and at Telefilm financing? Dark­ probably an exponential curve the doors. The CFDC always the purview of this humble these are legion - in th eir paths, bearded, green-eyed, Michael to how much you need in the liked the script in every version column, but it seems to this and as long as Telefilm with­ Chechik is executive producer budget. Our above-the-line is that Chris created." observer that Telefilm's insis­ holds money, and seems to of Walls. Along with writer­ ludicrously small." "And so," I said, "what is tence on being regarded as a demand that a producer relin­ producer Chris Bruyere and And so Telefilm was easily your advice to filmmakers who bank, with all the financial quish his or her cinematic first- director Torn 5handelk, we coaxed into putting up a third would like to access the Fund?" strictness that this implies, has (cant. o n p. 51) were sitting in the lone patch of sun in Michael's back-yard. Walls started as a stage play, written by Chris, which played at the Arts Club Theatre in Van­ couver in 1978. It was based loosely on a famous prison hostage-taking incident here in B.C. Chris later wrote a screen­ play, and went through several Balance v#ith producers' mills in trying to get it made before teaming up with Tom and Michael to pro­ duce it himself. "I said to Chris years ago that Cinegelon I always liked this project," said Tom, sunning himself in a wooden lawn chair. "When he was doing his research we sat in the same courtroom a lot of location and the time, because I was trying to do a documentary on the same subject. I never eould get the documentary off - it was too down a story, I guess. 50 you won't when Chris put his material together I always had a special interest in it. Then when he was getting romanced by all the producers I said, 'If you havetodoa ever want to make a low-bud­ get, this is the way to go with this story.' Years later he carne to me and said, 'Why dpn't we see what we can do ?'" balancing act Michael was drawn in later for the additional business acumen and contacts he could bring. His company, Omni Film Productions, acted as at the dailies. completion guarantor and sup­ ports itself producing cc;>mmer­ cials and industrial films. "And how was it that Tele­ Cinegel eliminates one embarrassing scene from the dailies. The one film accepte d a local documen­ where you h~~e. to ~x.plain unb~lanced color to the producer. tary maker as executi-ve pro­ Instead of fiXing It In the lab , this Academy Award winning family of ducer of a feature 7" I asked. t<;>ols corrects daylight, arc light, tungsten, fluorescent and HMI sources "The difference between a fight on the set. $2 million production and a $500,000 production tipped the . Th~ Cinegel !ine, which includes color-correcting gels and 17 different balance in our favor." The d~ffuslon matenals, was developed over many years by powers of the East saw that as clne~atographers, lig~ting directors ~nd Ros.co's specialists. It has pro­ manageable by a team of west­ ven Itself totally e.ffectlye - on location and In the studio - duri ng ern independent filmmakers. thousands of motion picture and teleVision productions. At this budget the film could well repay its investors in Ca­ For a free swatchbook and technical handbook, contact your rental nada before international dis­ house, Rosco dealer or Rosco. tribution, which none of these men made any bones about wanting. They all feel the film, which is artistically important to them, has strong commercial potential. Cinegel: "We have the smaller pro­ duction unit on the West Coast," I said, ., as opposed to a The Great Equalizer 'big-time' producer from back East. They both want interna­ tional sales ; they both want the film to make money. What is the difference between roseo them? Why should there be antagonism between them 7" 1271 Denison Street #66 Markham, Ontario, Ca nada L3R 485 • 416/475-1400 Also In New York, Hollywood, London, Madrid, and Tokyo. "I don't think there's anta­ gonism," said Tom. "If you make a movie for a million and a half, for instance, then your

SO/Cinema Canada - September 1984 • C IN E MAti • nearing escape veloCity. Others, Louise Carre announced that like Sandy Wilson and Phil Aseasonal change the annual event will be held View from Vancouver from Jan, 29-Feb, 3 and will RS L Entertainment (cont.from p. 50) Schmidt, are now arranging for he nceforth be known as the born to an eastern executive, Peter O'Brian, producer of The for Quebecois fete Rendez-vous du cinema que­ bows with full roster then we should expect and Grey Fo?(, to come in as execu­ becois, even welcome the shouts of tive producer for their low­ TORONTO - To underscore its MONTREAL - The Rendez-vous indignation. But one of the budget feature My American Given this fall's full agenda expanded role in the film and d'automne du cinema quebe­ most passionate of dissenters, Cousin. Indigenous feature of cinematographic events, TV industry, RSL Films Inc_ has cois, Quebec's annual retros­ Carre explained, the Rendez­ Elvira Lount, has now arranged production on the West Coast changed its name to RSL Enter­ pective of the year's cinemato­ to have her film Samuel Lount is making producers and exe­ vous's organizing committee tainment Corp, With the name graphic output, has unde rgone be co-executive produced by cutive producers out of film· decided upon the n'ew dates change becoming legal this Laurence Keane and Don Haig, makers, The executive produ­ a change of season as well as a for showing Quebec's 1983·84 month, CEO Stephen J, Roth an experienced Toronto pro­ cer gap can no longer last for­ change of name, production of films, As always, and president Robert Lantos In a press release dated Aug, ducer, and she is happy with ever- maybe not even for long, the Rendez-vous will be he ld at announced a series of new cor­ the situation. Her project is , Paul Vitols • 9, Re ndez-vous director general the Cinematheque quebecoise, porate appointments, including two new vice-presidents, an executive assistant, as well as new directors of publicity and National Office creative development. Producer Andras Hamori be­ comes vice-president produc­ Film Board national du film tion. Hamori, associate pro­ ducer on the RSL film Heavenly of Canada duCanada Bodies, is the author of a short on the making of Ragtime. He will be producing RSL's up' coming made-for-TV (CBS and CTV) series, Street Cop. Lawyer Richard Borchiver becomes vice-president, busi­ ness and legal affairs_ Borchi­ -----1NIWI-- ver, a graduate of Queen's Uni­ versity, worked as a corporate lawyer on Bay St. before be­ coming Superchannel Ontario's v- p, business and legal affairs, Zsazua Kelemen has been appointed executive assistant to Robert Lantos, With a back­ ground in TV production, Kelemen comes to RSL from Transglobal Films in Toronto. Margo Raport becomes director of publicity and pro­ motion. Former editor of Film and TV World, Raport was communications director for Superchannel Ontario for two years, Claire Walker has been named director of creative development. Former partner in the casting agency Walker­ Bowen, Walker has cast Cana­ • Director Jean Beaudin (at the top) and members of the cast of Mario­ dian films such as The Grey Natalie Chalifoux (left), Francis Reddy (right), and Xavier Norman Petermann (center) who plays the title role, Fo?( and Ticket To Heaven, as well as numerous U,S, produc­ FESTIVAL ROUND-UP Corporate Affairs, ' co-directed by program. The Masculine Mystique, tions in Canada_ Weldon and animator Chris Hin­ Giles Walker's and John Smith's August is a full month for film fes­ The appointments, effective ton; and The Boy and the Snow film about four modern men trying tival buffs with the Canad ian I nter­ immediately. are all based in Goose, Gayle Thomas' children's to cope with four modern women; national Animation Festival in Toronto, story about love and friendship. Bill Mason's feature documentary, Toronto, August 13-18, and the Waterwalker; Incident at Resti­ World Film Festival in Montreal, gouche, Alanis Obomsawin's inves­ August 16-27. Rudi Carter to In Montreal, The World Film Fes­ tigation of the police raids on the tival is presenting 15 N FB films - Micmac Reservation in 1981 ; Co indy post at CB C NFB productions are well repre­ four in competition and eleven in Hoedeman's latest film, Masca­ sented in both. The Animation Fes­ "Cinema Today and Tomorrow." rade; Real Inside, by John Wel­ TORONTO - Jack Cra ine. direc­ tival has selected five N FB films for Mario, Jean Beaudin's new film don ; Robert Awad's Amuse­ tor of television programming competition: Sid.ney Goldsmith's which will have its premiere at the Gueu/e; and A Special Letter, for CBC, announced the appoint· Starlife, a 20-minute animated film Festival, is the only Canadian feature directed by Zina Heczko. Other ment of Rudi Carter as director tracing the evolution of a star; Pierre selected for competition. The three films included in the program are of indep endent production for CBC Television, Veilleux's visual and sound experi­ animation films in competition are: Bruce Mackay's futuristic space ment, Champignons ; John Wel­ Jacques Giraldeau's Opera Zero; fantasy Starbreaker ; Thanks for the Carter w ill be responsible don's Emergency Numbers, a Treve , directed by Suzanne Ger­ Ride, John Kent Harrison's half­ for a ll of the English network's humorous warning about all those vais; and Stefan Anastasiu's Came­ hour drama based on a short story business dealings with produ­ important phone numbers we all leon. As well, several N FB produc­ by Alice Munro; Vamont Jobin's cers of independent television forget; A Piece of the Action, a film tions will premiere in the Festival's Un Gars d'ia place, and Pi erre Veil­ p rograms and feature films, clip produced for Consumer and "Cinema Today and Tomorrow" leux' Champignons. And will be at the centre of CBC's involv ement with Tele· film Canada's Broadcast Fund projects, N FB Offices in Canada: Headquarters · Montreal (514) 333·3452 Na tional Capital -Ottawa (6 13) 996-4259 PaciIic region · Vancouver (604) 666-1716 Quebec region· Montreal (514) 283·4823 In his new position. Carter Prairie region - Winnipeg (204) 949·4129 Atlanti c region - Halifax (902) 426-6000 replaces Roman Melnyk-who Ontario region -Toronto (416) 369·4094 plus offices in most major cities was recently appointed TV Network Program Director. - September 1984 . Ci nema Canada/51 • CIME MAt; • Women directors take on Societe Generale MONTREAL - Three women areas of "inexperience," and ceiving warm reviews. Her filmmakers are getting ready to urged them to resubmit their current request to make raise the roof over the manner projects for reconsideration - the film from the finished in which the Societe Generale something the filmmakers are screenplay, received backing du Cinema is awarding its sup­ reluctant to do as long as SGC's both from the project director port to projects submitted to it. structures are not firmly estab­ who first examined it, and Angered by the recent refusal lished. from the internal evaluation of the SGC to back their re­ The questions to which the committee (the staff commit­ quests, Louise Carre, Brigitte filmmakers want answers are tee made up of the various pro­ Sauriol and Mireille Danse­ simply a clear definition of the ject heads) where it was pre­ reau are openly wondering criteria used to judge their pro­ sented and defended by the whether the SGC isn't "anti­ jects, a definition of the sort of project director. The request feminist" and "reactionary" in project which the SGC is ready was turned down, however, by its decisions. to back, and information con­ the Board of Directors of the SGC deputy director general cerning the decisions affecting SGc. Michel House told Cinema them. Only Sauriol was able to Carre underlines that the Canada that each request is see her file after her film was staff professionals, charged accepted or refused according refused. The others are still un­ witth the evaluation of her pro­ to the merit of the specific pro­ satisfied by the responses ject, all approved it. The Board ject, and that quality is the given by the SGC concerning of Directors, however, refused principal criterion. "We are their projects. it, although their role is one of still, however, in a transitional Louise Carre had received watching over the healthy , period, and our structureli are $15,000 froIp the ex-Institut administration of the SGC and not firmly set" he said, inferring Quebecois de Cinema for the not, in theory, of making crea­ that things will run more development of her screenplay tive decisions. Carre is also dis­ smoothly once the SGC's deci­ Qui a tire sur nos histoires turbed by the fact that no one sional structure is defined and d'amour? Her first feature, (:a on the Board had read the approved by the Board of peut pas etre l'hiver on n'a me­ screenplay; they judged the ' Directors. me pas eu d'ete, was the sleeper project from a summary written According to the filmmakers, of 1980 - a low-bud_get i$245,000 by the project director. "Even if Nicole Boisvert, head of the cash) film about a 57-year-old they were competent to judge SGC, told each of them in inter­ woman - and had a respectable the project, how could they do views that her staff still had commercial run in Quebec, re- (cont. on p. 53)

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52/Cinema Canada - September 1984 • C I" E MA~ • Sauriol has similar com· work was inconclusive - and evaluated her "antecedants" ects (2 travel grants, 2 study WomenvsSGC plaints about the decision­ second that my approach was bothered to ask her distributor grants. one pre-scenarization (cant. from p. 52) making process, stating that 'pre-fascist', whatever that (Astra\) for the above informa­ grant. and one screenplay) so from a summary which was her request for development means." Sauriol's previous fea­ tion, and wonders on what in­ fqur of which have already written by somebody else ?", funds for her project L'eau noir ture, Rien qu'un jeu, was formation the SGC's evaluation sions," said Houle. He did state queries Carre. The Board of the was turned down on the basis screened at the Directors Fort­ was based. She also wonders that the substance of the rejected SGC is made up of one real­ of a summary written by the night at Cannes, banned in what more the SGC wants from screenplay, an examination of estate developer, the head"of project director, and not Ontario, earned $99,859 at the a filmmaker who is only at her the artistic milieu (Sauriol de­ the provincial cultural indus­ her original submission. box-office in Quebec, has sold second feature. scribes her project as exploring tries development fund "I was refused for two rea­ over 250 video-cassettes, been Countering the accusation of the relationship between a wo­ (SODICC), a communications sons," Sauriol told Cinema invited to eight festivals and bias, Houle at the SGC told man artist who must care for a consultant, the director of the Canada. "First, they said that made over six foreign sales Cinema Canada that since the child, and power and money) Cinematheque Queoocoise and mes antecedants n'etaient pas with many more pending. Sau­ SGC opened its doors in April, was a difficult one. Sauriol says Boisvert, the head of the SGc. concluants - that my previous riol claims that no one who Sauriol has presented five proj- she was told that in ten years' time, the tensions between the artistic milieu and the powel'" brokers will be resolved, and Canadian Film Institute that her subject will be passe. As for Dansereau, who Institutcanadten du film wanted to write a screenplay about a woman who has a mis­ COMMUNIQUE carriage, she simply fears that the SGC does not want women's mation on all film festivals around the films. written about women's world, and is a valuable resource for subjects. "I was told that they Over the last year, the Canadian Film Institute has received many inquiries about its Canadian producers and distributors had had enough of women's current activities and its plans for the future . We have decided that the most efficient and ' seeking to promote their films abroad. films, about 'interior' films. We economical method of responding to this interest is to publish a series of Communiques have all been told to use humor, in Cinema Canada. The CFt is now also distributing its new Guide to the Collection, a comprehensive to write about something else." listing of over 6000 film and video titles Her project, Les yeux fermes, available from our Film Library, based in which she says is the sequel to Mississauga, Ontario. The Film Library La vie revee - her first feature, serves educational film users across one whi.ch met with enthusias­ Canada, and provides a special focus on tic critical and public respon­ the sciences, cinema studies and the se as part of the Quebecois From left to right : Claude Jutra, visual and performing arts. The Guide can boom of the early '70s, - has Jacques Gagnon (Benoit) and be purchased for $15.00, prepaid, plus also been turned down. What Jean Duceppe (ronde Antoi­ $3 .00 for shipping and handling. Please grieves her is that the people ne) in Mon oncle Antoine, allow 4 weeks fo r delivery. To obtain your involved in the decision had selected as Canada's best film copy, please contact the CFI Film Library and part of the touring pro­ not seen her first film, and she gramme Canada's Ten Best. at our address in Mississauga, given was told that previous films below. weren't very important anyway. The three women consider MAJOR PUBLICATION FOR themselves part of the reieve­ CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL the new generation of film­ DEVELOPMENT AGENCY makers who will take over from NEARS COMPLETION NATIONAL fiLM THEATRE The Fall Programme will conclude with a the Carles, Fourniers and Le­ OF CANADA TOURS 20-film salute to Canadian cinema, spon­ Research for the final 3 sections of Per­ febvres of Quebec. They point spectives on Development will be com­ "CANADA'S TEN BEST" sored by the National Film, Television out that the SGC had promised and Sound Archives as part of "Archives pleted in the early fall of 1984. Produced a certain continuity - a chance The National Film Theatre of Canada has Month" in Ottawa. Several filmmakers by the Information and Research Division for some filmmakers to work reached an agreement with Toronto's will be invited to Ottawa to participate. of the CFI with the assistance of the regularly and perfect their art Festival of Festivals and the Labatt Brewing Canadian International Development Company Lim ited to co-ordinate the "When a man makes an indif­ NEW SPONSORS OF CANADIAN Agency, this 7-section publication pro­ ferent film, that's a step in his national tour of Canada's Ten Best - ten vides detalled evaluations, in both offi­ FILM INSTITUTE PROGRAMMES career. When a women makes films selected by over 150 critics and ciallanguages, of over 1 SO documentaries filmmakers from a national poll conducted The Canadian Film Institute is currently dealing with a wide range of international the same indifferent film, the by Festival of Festivals personnel. This developing a wide variety of new projects development issues. These films, evaluat­ feeling is that she has had h er programme will premiere at the Festival which will contribute to our long-term ed by such o rganizations as the Institute chance, that she should go of Festivals in September before touring stability and be nefit the Canadian film of Asian Research (Vancouver) and the back to the kitche n," sums up to ten Canadian dties, from Victoria to and television community, Recently con­ North/South Institute (Ottawa); have Carre. The three have served Halifax, in October and November. firmed sponsors for the Institute's activi­ been chosen for their extremely high notice, in a meeting with the ties include : Telefilm Canada, the Dep­ standards of production and content. deputy minister of Cultural UPCOMING PROGRAMMES AT THE artment of the Secretary of State, the Copies of this publication can be ob­ Affairs, that they are not pre­ NATIONAL FILMTHEATRE OF CANADA CBC, the National Film, Television and tained, without charge, from our Ottawa pared to turn back, and that Sound Archives, The Canada Council, the The NFT's Summer Programme will con­ offices. they want clarification con­ Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Cul­ cerning the decisions m ad e at clude in August with the highly popular ture, The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman the SGC, a nd the role it re­ Disney series Persistence of Mickey, Family Foundation, Northern Telecom With an eye to its 50th-Anniversary in cu rated by Richard Gotli b ofToronto , and Limited, Labatt Brewing Company limit­ 1985, the Can adian Film Institute will serves for the wome n film­ sponsored by Metropolitan Insurance ed, and Metropolitan Insurance Compa­ co ntinue th e work it is mandated to do: makers of the province. To be Companies. encourage and promote th e production, obliged to tur n out sta ndaI'd nies. diffusion, study, appreciation and use of Highlighting the N FT's September and prod uct for the e nterta inm e nt mo ving im ages for educational and cultu­ marke t, instead of being October programme is a week of films NEW PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE ral purposes in Ca nada and elsewhere. It from the European Community, including FROM THE CANADIAN will continue to serve its con stitu ent s allowed to follow their ex­ Bertrand 'Tavernier's A Sunday in the FILM INSTITUTE fr om coast to coas t. And it will co ntinu e to ploration of cinema according Country, winner of Best Director's Award The Publications Division of the Canadian pl an its growth with th e next fi fty years in to their own sensibilities, they at Cannes '84. Film Institute is pleased to announce that mind. say, is inacceptible. As part of the NFT's programme " New the British Film Institute Guide to Interna­ We in vite yo ur co mm en ts and sugges­ tional Film Festivals ~ 1984 ($10.00), is tions on our se rvices and prog ramm l.'s. Asian Cinema," Filipino director Lino Pl ease write to us at our Ottawa offices. Broca will be in Ottawa to premiere his now available from our Ottawa offices, Quebec releases latest film Bayan-Ko. This publication contains detailed infor- MONT REAL -Upcoming thea­ trical releases of films by Que­ CFI FILM LIBRARY : BUSINESS OFFICES : bec directors include Jean­ 75 ALBERT ST. 211 WATLINE AVE. SUITE 8-20 SUITE 204 Claude Labrecque's Les annees OnAWA, ON MISSISSAUGA. ON d e reve starring Gilbert Sicotte, K1P 5E7 L4Z 1 P3 Anne-Marie Provencher, Mo­ (613) 232-6727 (416) 272-3840 nique Mercure and Roger LeBel, FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY which opens in Montreal Sept. 1935 CINQUANTIEME ANN IVERSAIRE 1985 (cont. to p. 55)

Seotember 1984 - Cinema Canada/53 • C IN E MA(; • view s with Festival guests, as Verseau to produce well as sp ecial Festival items," Mortimer named to she says. "These will be blended AeTRA vetos censorship special edition of with reviews of Festival films." association staff Danis found the response to TORONTO - The members of and Researchers - have agreed Premiere Vue for last year's programs particularly TORONTO - The Association of the Alliance of Canadian that the policy must be reviewed interesting outside the Mont­ Canadian Film and Television Cinema, Television and Radio to satisfy the concerns of the real region : "People elsewhere Producers announced July 16, Artists (ACTRA) have rejected minority opinion. Montreal Festival said they were able to pick up the appointment of Peter Mor­ the Policy on Censorship by a The policy was perceived by on the Festival atmosphere time r as executive vice-presi­ margin of 55 to 43 percent. The some as being one which MONTREAL - Radio-Canada's here from the program, almost dent of the Association, a part­ victory for the 'no' vote to cen­ imposes limits on free expres­ weekly movie review show A as though they could 'keep in time staff position. sorship came after lengthy sion. And there was particular Premiere Vue will turn into a touch' with the film world. Mortimer is a vice-president internal discussion and the concern about the misuse of nightly event again this year We're going to expand that ele­ of the Canadian Film Institute, highest turn-out for a referen­ ACTRA policy to back the posi­ during the Montreal Film Fes­ ment even more this time out." and holds directorships in the dum in ACTRA's history. A total tion of those who call for greater tival. Eleven special editions of A Premiere Vue's Special Academy of Canadian Cinem,a, of 2,042 ballots were cast. censorship and who have in the program are set to run from Editions will feature regular the Canadian International The vote against the policy the past censored legitimate Aug. 17-27, following the late- program hosts Rene Homier­ clearly indicates the opposition works. night news. . Animation Festival Inc., and Roy and Chantal Jolis. TW A Productions Inc. of ACTRA's members to censor­ Produced by Les Productions ship. But says ACTRA president du Verse au in conjunction with Bruce MacLeod, "there is una­ Joyner jumps Radio-Canada, A Premiere Vue nimity among the members on is now into its second broadcast the two issues." On the one season. Last year's Festival Spe­ hand ACTRA's membership TORONTO - Don Joyner has cials d rew an estimated night­ opposes censorship, on the been named vice-president of ly audience of 500,000 national­ other, they are opposed to the Sales at First Choice. Joyner ly, and both Air Canada and £IZ CIES£UJ< production of pornographic comes to First Choice from O' Keefe have returned to spon­ material which is abusive and Superchannel Ontario where sor the shows this year. violent to all men, women, and he was vice-president of sales Executive producer Aimee I PROFESSIONAL MAKE-UP ARTIST children. and director of marketing. Danis was "very pleased" with . MacLeod warned those pro­ Said Fred Klinkhammer, the program's first shot at Fes­ 7-67 3-729-7777 ducers who create pornogra­ president and chief executive tival coverage, but plans to make phic productions that they officer of First Choice, "Don some sig~ificant changes this SPECJA[IZING IN PROSTlIETIC WORK should not take the rejection of joins us to expand on a job well year. the policy as an indication that done by Michel Cloutier. Don's "We're going to add a fair FOR FILM & TELEVISION ACTRA condones the produc­ achievements in sales and amount of on-location tion of material which is abusive marketing, from print media to and akin to h ate literature. cable company management, He also announced that the make him a strong addition to chairpersons of the three guilds the First Choice team." of ACTRA - the Writers' Guild, Joyner's appointment follows the Performers' Guild, and the a 20-year career in media, sales Guild of Broadcast Journalists and marketing. Thanks:

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54/Cinema Canada - September 1984 • CIME MAt; • Mazzeo heads home after CB C Enterprises Joshua part of RS L activity MONTREAL - Less than a week Inc. to Metromedia in the U.S. amount of business with Ca­ after making public "the biggest for an '85 broadcast on what nada." Representing 132 TV MONTREAL - As the cameras from a script by Dane and single sale of a program series observers consider to be the stations in the U.S. Blair Enter­ at last get set to roll on Joshua Toronto journalist Ron Base, ever made by CBC Enterprises," fourth American television net­ tainment represents SCTV in Then And Now, the multi­ Heavenly Bodies-is a contem­ CBCE's flamboyant general­ work the U.S. as well as product from million dollar feature adapta­ porary musical starring Cynthia manager Guy Mazzeo resigned Reached in New York for Global and CTV International. tion of Mordecai Richler's best­ Dale and Richard Rebiere. from the Corporation to become comment on his sudden res­ "Canada had become my selling novel, the newly­ RSL is comple ting post-pro­ executive vice-president of New ignation, Mazzeo told Cinema home," Mazzeo added, "and I renamed RSL Entertainment duction on three other features York-based Blair Entertainment Canada "I did not leave the wouldn't have taken this new Corp. looks forward to a bum­ shot last winter. Release plans In a telex July 12, CBC execu­ CBC i I went to Blair ; it was job if I didn't expect to do a per year for new and recent for Bedroom Eyes, directed by tive vice-president W.T. Arm­ something we had talked tremendous amount of busi­ product William Fruet and starring strong announced Mazzeo's about with Blair for months. ness with Canada." RSL'sa 90-minute futuristic Dayle Haddon ; New Year's Eve, resignation and replacement "I get good press - and I get a Describing Blair as "a very comedy satire Overdrawn At directed by Timothy Bond, on an acting basis by CBC En­ lot of press," Mazzeo added, strong company," Mazzeo, as The Memory Bank will have its starring Lenore Zann ; and Per­ terprises assistant general­ "but it's always in connection executive v.p., business and CBC Sept 22 18 pm EST). fect Timing, directed by Rene manager Paul Cadieux. with a program sale. I consider creative affairs, will set up the Memory Bank, starring Raul Bonniere, starring Stephen July 6 Mazzeo had announ­ resignation to be personal company's international dis­ Julia and Linda Griffiths, direct­ Markle, have not yet been an­ ced the sale of 26 episodes of business and f can't think of tribution operation. Blair Enter­ ed by Doug Williams with state­ nounced. Seeing Things to France's FR3, anything more boring than a tainment is the television syn­ of-the-art rock video techno­ Enterprises' biggest single personal story on me. dication division of lohn Blair logy, will also air on PBS's In a separate development, series sale ever. Currently play­ "There was nothing nega­ & Co. American Playhouse series RSL in agreement with Toron­ ing on 25 U.S. TV stations, the tive about my resignation. CBC early next year. to's CITY-TV has signed a long­ comedy mystery series, starring was a fabulous place and it Quebec (cont. from p_ 53) In January, MGM/ UA will be term deal for national televi­ Louis del Grande, has been CBC was a fabulous thing. I had the releasing RSL Entertainment's sion syndication of its feature 21 at the Berri. Distributor is Enterprises' top-selling program greatest honor and opportunity Heavenly Bodies in the U.S. film library. Les Films Rene Malo. for the past two years, with Aus­ anybody can have in a job. But and Canada - and, later in '85, On the production front, Then, early in October, Andre tralia, West Germany, Singa­ I'm only 35; how long was I 20th Century Fox will release Joshua Then And Now, the Melan,

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September 1984 - Cinema Canada/55 • CIME MAti • that industry as a pivot between • the nature of M-ontreal's the American and the European studio needs : "Between Tele­ Quebec agencies respond to Cite de Cinema film industries. film and the SGC," said Danse­ "For two decades now we reau, "we have $64 million a MONTREAL - Only hours be­ phants such as pay-TV or "it is crucial to carefully have been on a forced march year for films that are predomi­ fore expiry of the federal architectural ones like Mon­ examine both the feasibility of towards success according to nantly not shot in studios; we government's deadline for tI'eal's Olympic Stadium. Dan­ a future Cite du Cinema, as American norms. At the end of have 21 studios here in Mont­ submission of proposals for a sereau and Boisvert warned well as its impact on our au­ the road, the results are slim: a real (between Radio-Canada, Montreal Cite du Cinema, the against the risks of"these large diovisual industry. before few large productions concei­ the NFB and the private sectorl Quebec government's princi­ projects that bring with them charging ahead with a new ved of and realized by others .. . a that operate full time. What are pal film-funding and film-policy fame and notoriety only to turn venture in which we risk few critical successes for most our real studio needs?" agencies jOintly announced themselves into nightmares having to pick up the tab for of our own productions, even • and technological uncer­ their critical support for the and debts." what are mainly electoral pre­ the most commercial ones. taintyfrom undetermined new idea, calling, however, for The Cite du Cinema project, occupations." " If the infrastructures and markets and constantly chang, additional impact studies. whetted with a $22 million For Dansereau and Boisvert, economic advantages that could ing production techniques. At a press conference July 17 cash contribution from the "it is important that we not lose result (from'the Cite) only serve "There's something strange in the Institut quebecois du federal government, was offi­ the thread of our own deve­ to confine us to secondary tech­ around all this," Dansereau cinema's new Old Montreal cially announced June 11 by lopment which is forcibly nical positions, the modern commented. "All of federal offices, CEOs Fernand Danse­ former Communications mi­ modest because of our small audiovisual forms of 'cheap policy seems oriented towards reau (IQC ) and Nicole M. Bois­ nister Francis Fox at the annual population. The challenge be­ labor: we will have missed an radical transformations from vert of the Societe generale du meeting of the Quebec pro­ fore us is above all one of opportunity to have done bet­ above. We, on the other hand, cinema termed the Cite du ducers' association. Within excellence in content, both in ter. Yet that risk is great." want to develop the milieu Cinema idea "far from stupid. moments of the announcement, the form as well as the cultural For Dansereau and Boisvert, from below. So I guess our but requires exemplary pru­ a consortium headed by Mon­ and economic returns of our before meriting general sup­ pOSition reflects an implicit dence and rigor." treal World Film Festival direc­ coll ective e ndeavors. We must port (or financial participation criticism of federal policy as a "We recommend therefore," tor Serge Losique and pro­ think again before placing all from the Quebec government) whole." Dansereau and Boisvert said, ducers Denis and Justine He­ our hopes either in concrete or the Cite du Cinema project Meanwhile in Ottawa, a "that the Minister of Cultural roux declared itself ready to technology." should be able to offer more spokesman for the ministry of Affairs initiate extensive fea­ raise the $14 million in private­ For the two CEOs, "the idea serious guarantees to "our Communications confirmed the sibility, profitability and socio­ sector funding required for the of a Cite du Cinema is not expressive resources, our receipt of two proposals to economic impact studies be.­ realization of the $36 million without interest in itself," but entrepreneurs, our present develop a Cite du Cinema, one fore getting involved either Cite project on Montreal's calls for a detailed inventory of and future technical needs, from Losique-Heroux, the short-term or long-term (in the waterfront. (For details, see the real needs of the Montreal and a better e"Cology of our other from Astral Bellevue proposalJ." Cinema Canada No. 1091. film industry and a greater public and private institutions." Pathe. Both proposals will be Citing industry white ele- For Dansereau and Boisvert, awareness of the specificity of Speaking with Cinema studied by a subcommittee Canada, both Boisvert and headed by deputy minister Dansereau said a Cite du Cine­ Alain Gourd. The committee's ma would be welcome, but, as decision is expected by Septem­ Dansereau put it, "if there is to ber. be one, it should be one adapt­ ed to our needs. Either this project is a serious one, in which case it is worth examin­ Toronto responds . ing further, or it serves only short-term electoral needs, in TORONTO - The federal gov­ YOU SHOULD PUT which case it's just another un­ ernment's proposed involve­ finished Olympic tower." ment in the creation of an "The project commands res­ international film and televi­ US IN YOUR pect and enthusiasm," Boisvert sion centre in Montreal (see added. "but once bitten. twice Cinema Canada No. 109) has NEXT PICTURE shy. Remember that the entire prompted Toronto mayor pay-TV experience was jus­ Arthur Eggleton to put the case for a similar production centre You have highly speCialized insurance needs and we tified in terms of what it would bring our creators. I wouldn't here. have the know-how to put it all together. want to go through that expe­ In a two-page letter July18 to rience again. Believe me, the minister of Communications From negative film and videotape, to animal and Edward Lumley, Eggleton noted livestock insurance_ interests of Montreal and Que­ bec matter more to me than that "Toronto too is a major From props, sets and wardrobe to boats and helicopters. those of Toronto or Vancouver, centre of film and television and I would be heart-broken to production in Canada with a For 25 years, Thomas I. Hull Insurance Limited has see this dossier leave Mont­ substantial infrastructure in been part of the Film and Broadcasting Industry, real. So let's have a Cite du the form of creative and tech­ providing creative solutions for creative problems. Cinema - but the right one." nical personnel, unions, guilds, associations, studios, labs, We'll produce realistic estimates for your budget and Among the unresolved ques­ pre- and post-production ser­ tions surrounding the Cite pro­ work to get you the best rates available. vices and other support facili­ ject, Dansereau and Boisvert ties." specifically questioned: A 'phone call to Jack Thompson or John Head is all it Since 1979, Eggleton wrote, takes to get us rolling. • the source of the federal over 100 motion pictures with government's promised injec­ budgets close to $300 million tion of $22 million: "Are the have been made in Toronto. $22 million in equity or in HULL The production of television cash 7 " Boisvert asked. "Where programmes, documentaries, INSURANCE is that $22 million to come educational and industrial from 7" GROUP films as well as television com­ • the speCificity of Montreal mercials exceed $100 million film production as a turntable annually, Eggleton stated, add­ between Europe and America: Royal Bank Plaza , South Tower, ing that certain large vacant 28th, Floor,P.O. Box !26, "The fact remains," said Dan­ sites not suited for industrial sereau, "that co-productions Toronto,Ontario. M5,J 2 •.13 redevelopment "would be have transformed the nature of ideally suited to a Government­ our prodUction, making it supported production centre." (416) 865-0131 more difficult for us. A serious Eggleton said he was writing reflection is called for on this Lumley. "to alert you to our topic." Dansereau feared, for interest in this matter and to example, that the involvement our desire to explore this of Telefilm Canada or SGC further at the officials' level." funding in the Cite "would risk The city of Vancouver has reorienting our production also expressed interest in a towards a certain kind of film ." similar production centre.

58/Cinema Canada - September 1984 • CINE MAC; • , , WTV Sbuys first Canadian package for P8 S PACIFIC CINEMATHEQUE PACIFIQUE

TORONTO - The Canadian gram, Gongga Shan - White lars. He, as a Canadian, pointed office of WTVS, Detroit Public Peak Beyond the Clouds, from out the advantages of being an Television, has announced Extra Modern Productions Ltd., insider in the system, that he acquisition of the first package was made possible by Labatt acted as a broker who knew of Canadian TV productions Brewing Co. Ltd. underwriting where the PBS money-pots EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR for distribution to U.S. PBS sta­ the PBS distribution. were available, and also that tions. At a reception in Toronto WTVS/ Canada had its own . The Pacific Cinematheque Pacifique will be hiring Robert Larson, WTVS president Nemtin regards this package syndication service. this fall an Executive Director. Pacific and general manager, on his as "the tip of the iceberg." In Cinematheque Pacifique was founded in 1972, first visit to the city, said that the past six months he screened People at the reception con­ has over 3000 members and runs both public TV in the States has an over 200 programs, and is acti­ nected with the package acqui­ an exhibition programme and a growing archive "unprecedented need for high vely considering six finished sition included Janet Laine­ and library. The individual hired wou Id quality programming." series, almost a dozen specials Green, the Chatauqua Girl her­ be responsible for the executive management of the and many other proposals and self; Diane Dupuy, founder/ Society within the guidelines and policies Bill Nemtin, heading WTVS's pilots for series. He also indi­ director of The Famous People established by fils constitution and the Board Canadian operation, detailed cated co-productions were a Players; Peter Raymont, writer/ of Directors. In general the duties of the Executive the six titles acquired: Cha­ possibility in the future. director of Magic in the Sky; Director would be film programme administration tauqua Girl, a two-hour feature and Bill House, producer of and coordination, staff supervision, public film, and Oscar Peterson: Dealing with specific ques­ Gongga Shan. relations, publicity and promotion, and the director Words and Music, both from tions, Nemtin was coy as to ot the film archives. CBC; Singing: a Joy in any investment in the first six­ WTVS/Detroit is a non-profit Language from the NFB, who program package, saying that television station operated by Salary: negottat)le. also collaborated as producers figures would be available in the Detroit Educational Televi­ on Magic in the Sky with Inves­ about two months. Asked to sion Foundation and affiliated for Further Det_its: please contact, M khael rliot tigative Productions and the comment on how he fitted in with PBS. It produces seven Hurst, Secretary of the Board, Pacific Cinematheque Inuit Tapirisat of Canada; with the educational networks, series in its studios, operates Pacifique, 1616 West f.hird Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. Famous People Players - Spe­ Nemtin said that PBS has many 24-hours a day, and has pre­ Canada V6) 11<2. (604} 732~5322 cial Friends of China from entities which have discretion viously bought only one Cana­ or (604) 255~1076. Amaranth Productions/Toronto. about spending (a) production dian production, A Christmas Acquisition of the sixth pro- dollars and (b) acquisition dol- Special with Luciano Pavarotti. Oe

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September 1984 - Cinema Canada/57 • C I" E MAt; miere. comfort and Joy, written reve (The Sil'ties : The Dream by John N. Smith and Giles and directed by Scotland's Bill Years), directed by Jean-Claude Walker; Mouvement-Danse, a Montreal line-up complete Forsyth (Local Hero, Gregory's Labrecque and also presented documentary on muscular Girl), was recently awarded at Cannes in the prestigious dystropy, directed by Gilles Pare MONTREAL - Katherine Hep­ have its world premiere at the the best directors prize by the Quinzaine des rea lisa teurs, and Celine Thibodeau; and burn ... Clint Eastwood... Gene­ festival. A Cannon Group pre­ British Academy of Cinema with Anne-Marie Provencher Bill Mason's Walter Walker, a vieve Bujold ... are some of the sentation, The Ultimate Solu­ and Television. and Gilbert Sicotte; and the National Film Board produc­ star names expected to grace tion of Grace Quigley will be previously announced Le cri­ tion. the opening of the 8th Montreal accompanied by another Can­ The Fest's Canadian contin­ gent will comprise a total of30 me d'Ovide Plouffe by Denys Fifteen shorts have been World Film Festival which gets non release, John Cassavetes' Arcand, selected as the closing selected in the Cinema of Today underway Aug. 16. Love Streams which will have features and shorts. night film. and Tomorro~ Section: Un While Eastwood's and Bu­ its North American premiere in Jean Beaudin's Mario, a co­ venture between ICC and the gars d'la place by Valmont Jo­ jold's coming to Montreal is the fest's HoI'S concours sec­ In the Cinema of Today and bin; Thanks for the Ride by still under negotiation with tion. Starring Gena Rowlands, National Film Board, has been Tomorrow Section, eight fea­ selected for competition, along John Kent Harrison ; Bruce Warner Bros., Eastwood's latest John Cassavetes, Diahanne tures have been selected. They Mackay's Starbreaker i Zina film Tightrope will have its Abbott and Seymour Cassel, with 11 Canadian and Quebe­ are: Hey Babe, directed by cois feature films and 18 shorts. Heczko's A Special Letter; world premiere on the Fest's Love Streams was written by Rafal Zielinski and starring Real Inside, directed by John opening night, World Film Fes­ MontrealerTed Allan, who will Three of the selected shorts Buddy Hackett ; Raymond Weldon and David Verrall; tival director Serge Losique an­ be in attendance to represent will be competition for the Massey : Actor of the Century Mascarade by Co Hoedeman ; nounced July 17. the film. A Cannon spokesper­ Grand Prix de Montreal. They by Ha~ry Rasky ; Lea Pool's La Alanis Obomsawin's Incident With Eastwood starring and son confirmed that Katherine are: Opera Zero by Jacques Femme de I'hOtel; Mother's a Restigouche; Champignons coproducing, Tightrope, written Hepburn would attend the fes­ Giraldeau; Treve, directed by Meat & Freud's Flesh, directed directed by Pierre Veilleux; and directed by Richard Tug­ tival "if her health allows." Suzanne Gervais; and Came­ by Demetri Demetrios; All in Amuse-gueule by Robert gle, and also starring Gene-' Other Majors releases pre­ leon by Stefan Anastasiu. the Mind (Stress and Emo­ Awad; Michel Poulette's Cher vieve Bujold, is a suspense miering at the Festival include Three feature films have tions) by Robin Spry, a docu­ Monsieur I'aviateur; Double thriller set in New Orleans. the world premiere of MGM/ been selected for the HoI'S Con­ drama dealing with the ways jeu directed by Suzy Cohen; La Also in competition, The UL­ UA's Until September, Richard cours section: Jean-Pierre Le­ in which physical and chemical Dame blanche de Wieliczka by timate Solution of Grace Quig­ (Return ofthe JediJ Marquand's febvre's LeJourS, presented at changes to the brain alter be­ Jorge Fajardo; Robert Four­ ley, starring Katherine Hep­ latest. As well, the Universal the Cannes Festival in May, havior and character; The nier's Manuscrits: Philippe burn and Nick Nolte and direc­ Masculine Mystique, a National release Comfort and Joy will and starring Pierre Curzi and Aubert de Gaspe i Making a ted by Anthony Harvey, will have its North-American pre- Marie Tifo; Les Annees de Film Board production, directed Difference by Louise Quirion Shekter ; and Guazapa by Don North. New Cinema Fest gets Fassbinder's Beriin Alexanderplatz

MONTREAL - Berlin Alel'an­ derplatz, the late R.W. Fassbin­ der's monumental, IS-hour, television epic will be one of the highlights of the 13th Inter­ national Montreal Festival of New Cinema to be held from ,Oct. 18-28.

Camera, Lighting and Grip Located this year at the Hotel supplied by du ParC!La cite complex, Fes­ tival screenings will mainly take place at the three La Cite cinemas while others, includ­ ® ing the Fassbinder, will be WILLIAM F. WHITE LIMITED scheduled at the Outremont Cinema (Oct. 19-22), with the Cinematheque quebecoise and the Cinema Parallele providing additional locations. Along with Berlin Alel'an­ derplatz, shown only once before in Canada at Ottawa's National Film Theatre, four other important cinema pre­ mieres, still to be announced, will be shown at the Outremont. The Cinematheque quebe­ coise will be used for special retrospectives and workshops, as well as for the "Images d'ici" selection devoted to recent Quebec independent produc­ tion. Original videos will be shown at the Cinema Parallele. Also new this year, Festival organizers announced the first­ ever Quebec Film Market, to help promote contacts and ex­ changes between indie produ­ cers, distributors and exporters, In collaboration with Montreal distributor Films Transit,. the Film Market is designed to highlight recent Quebec film production.

58/Cinema Canada - September 1984 • C IN E MAG • Ambitious Atlantic Festival plaigued by finances, local squabbles

HALIFAX - Amid the indiffe­ Despite Riggio's grand ex­ think there's anything definitive Back, Beyond Reasonable press), Denmark (Ladies on rence orthe local filmmaking pectations, the Halifax film one way or another that can't Doubt, Goodbye Pork Pie, the Rocks, Rocking Silver), milieu and the loss of the Na­ community for its part seems get worked out if not next week, Smash Palace, Skin Deep), Bel­ Finland (Monica and the Time tional Film Board's support, to be showing little interest at next month, and if not next gium (Zaman), East Germany ofBurning Love), Iceland (The the Fourth Atlantic Film Fes­ this point. Traditional sources month, then by opening night." (The Scout), West Germany Father's Estate, InterNos, When tival, to be held here Oct. 25- of staffers, resource people, Confirmed countries and (Paso Doble, Out of the Blue, The Raven Flies), Norway (The Nov. 1, is counting on a dramatic office space, and telephones films as of June 15 include and the work of nine women Pirates), Sweden (P&B), Brazil internationalization of its pro­ supplied in past years by the Canada (Maria Chapdelaine), directors), Great Britain (The (0 Rei de Vela) and Switzer­ gramming and private-sector film co-ops and the National U.S. (Variety, The Wild Rose), Maila, Too Drunk To Remem­ land (Man Without Memory). backing to attain attendance Film Board have not been of­ New Zealand (Strata, Carry Me ber), Yugoslavia (Balkan E1(- (cont. on p. 6U) levels 10 times higher than last fered for this yeaI'. year. "We're not supporting the With 15 feature films so far festival this year," Barry Cow­ from as many countries and ling, executive producer of the additional films "coming in NFB's Atlantic office, told Cine­ daily from Toronto, Alberta, ma Canada. "We're not too British Columbia and the U.S.," pleased with the way the Fes­ Festival director Michael Riggio tival was run last year. We're told Cinema Canada that the now looking at a possible semi­ Part of a Canadian Tradition festival this year would reflect nar for our regional develop­ "a greater internationalization ment needs rather than the by far - a much faster growth Festival. pace. "A lot of people were keyed "If you look at last year's pro­ to the success of the Festival - Since 1964, the Golden Sheaf Awards have symbolized the gram there were a large num­ that support, however, seems best in Canadian short subjects. That commitment to ber of films from outside our to have evaporated. The co-ops excellence has made the Yorkton Short Film and Video immediate area: 12 features for instance are less than en­ last year. This year we've decide thusiastic and the CBC's posi­ Festival the oldest continuous festival of its kind in North , to stop playing around and go tion is not yet know." America. for a certain level of growth. But members of the indepen­ ~ 1 "Since 1979 we've talked of dent producers' group, the We're committed to more than recognizing excellence. doing a North Atlimtic regional Atlantic Independent Film and Because film-making is a business as well as an art, we offer film festival, but we couldn't Video Association, joined by get it together in '80-'81. Now in members of the Atlantic Film­ seminars and workshops designed to help produce a quality, '84 we feel the time has come." makers' Cooperative, are plan­ marketable product. And our 24 hour Marketplace brings Riggio is aiming for audience ning an unofficial boycott of film-makers and distributors together; creating unique attendence this year in the 25- this year's festival. 30,000-range, a growth rate of "We worked very hard to try marketing opportunities. 1000% percent in one year. With and improve on last year's fes­ seven theatres for screenings tival," Atlantic Filmmakers' And; this year, it's easier than ever to be part of the Golden as opposed to last year's three, Co-op president Lulu Keating Sheaf Awards. Special travel packages are available. And the major corporate sponsorship told Cinema Canada. "There from Air Canada and the en­ was quite a concern over our low cost will be a pleasant surprise. thusiastic collaboration of the public image as a result of last GOLDE N Halifax Board of Trade and year's festival, but we've had Write or call today for more information. numerous local companies, no recognition from the Festival SHEAF Riggio is confident that "it's all board. The Festival is a great Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival coming together." idea, but it just doesn't work." 49 Smith Street East AWARDS "We want to concentrate on As a result, Keating explained, regional filmmaking, not the some co-op members plan to Yo*ton, Saskatchewan major production centers. This boycott the festival. "Most of Phone: (306) 782-7077 means more films from Den­ us," she added, "are putting mark, Iceland, and the U.S. our energy into the (alternative) October 31-November 4,1984 independents. But we certainly seminar." haven't' eliminated regional Not all the Atlantic coopera­ Entry Deadline September 30 Atlantic production. In fact a tives, however, are backing the lot more people will have an boycott. NIFCO, the Newfound­ opportunity to see regional land Independent Filmmakers' programming in the form of Co-op, the example, are remain­ shorts before the features, plus ing firm in their support for the ind out what you've been missing there'll be a package of Atlantic festival. films." However, Riggio noted Fest director Riggio, for his that the details of these wouldn't part, is confident any problems be known until mid-September. can still be ironed out. "I don't

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September 1984 - Cinema Canada/59 • C I" E MAt; • date on ABC this production Chan, Kyle Skinner, Tom Hea­ can and international audien­ Features dominate Be production began lensing June 18 and was ton and Roy Vickers. ces with first-rate adventure skedded to wrap July 16. Gil Shilton (Mag~um P.I., entertainment designed for Blue Thunder, A-Team) is slated family viewing." VANCOUVER - B.C. crews and and produced by Gil Adler. Danger Bay is a 13-part tele­ to direct five episodes, includ­ talent are currently being em­ Certain Fury is being shot vision drama series that began The series line producer is ing the opening show "The Sea ployed by five major produc­ entirely on location in B.C. shooting June 18 and is slated Ray Sager, production manager Pup." Alan Eastman (Grizzly tions with a sixth slated to using many Vancouver-area to wrap Sept. 21. This four­ is Mary Wilts and the post-pro­ Adams, Littlest Hobo) will be begin in late August. Currently performers and technicians. million dollar series, created duction producer is Paul Quig­ directing three shows in the Los Angeles-based Decade by Peter Dixon and executive ley. Director of photography is lensing in Vancouver and envi­ series, including the second rons are three feature films: Production Services Inc., is on producer Paul Saltzman, is Doug MacKay, with art direc· show. location with the made-for-TV being produced in collabora­ tion by Graeme Murray. Runaway, Clan of the Cave Said Saltzman, "I couldn't be Bear, and Certain Fury; a movie, Billy Grier. Written by tion with the CBC, The Disney happier. We've assembled a Danger Bay is scheduled to made-for-TV movie (Billy Grier) director/ writer, Corey Blech­ Channel and Telefilm Canada. superb cast and crew, and with air in the fall on the ,CBC net· and a 13-part TV series, Danger man, the film is the personal Donnelly Rhodes portrays the support of our three financ­ work and the Disney Channel. Bay. drama of a young teenage boy Grant "Doc" Roberts, the trou­ ing partners, we look forward Runaway, a Michael Crichton who contracts a rare disease ble-shooting veterinarian and to presenting Canadian, Ameri- Ken Kuramoto 4t presentation for Tri-Star Pic­ that causes premature physical curator at the Vancouver aqua­ tures, starring Tom Selleck ageing. The young boy is played rium. Vancouver native Debo­ (Magnum P.I., High Road to by Ralph Macchio (The Karate rah Wakeham is Joyce, Robert's China), co-starring Gene Sim­ Kid) with Hal Holbrook, Betty companion and pilot who flies mons (of rock group Kiss), Cyn­ Buckley, Season Hubley and him on adventurous rescue (cont. from p. 59) thia Rhodes (Flashdance, Stay­ Jeffery Tambor filling the missions along British Colum­ Troubled Atlantic Fest ingAlive) and Kirstie Alley, and remaining principal roles. The bia's rugged coast and through­ In addition to attendance by three retrospectives of the directed by Michael Crichton crew is 85% Canadian and the out the wild interiors of the Danish director Christian B. works of Canadian experimen­ from his own screenplay, is a production boasts hiring over Pacific Northwest. Cris Crabb Thomson (Ladies on the Rocks), tal and documentary film­ fast-paced, action-adventure, 500 extras from Vancouver. plays Jonah, Robert's 14-year­ Iceland's Hrafn Gunnlaugsson makers: Fredericton'S Art theatrical motion picture about Canadian actors include Mere­ old son and Ocean Hellman, (When The Raven Flies), Brazil's Makosinski (Free The Meat), a dedicated cop in relentless dith Woodward, Jane Wright, Nicole, his 12-year-old daugh­ Jose Celso Noilton (0 Rei de Halifax's Neal Livingston, and pursuit of a homicidal maniac, Lillian Carlson, Don McKay, ter. Vela) and Switzerland's Kurt Montrealer Ron Hallis' films an electronic genius specializ­ Lois MacLean and Michael Danger Bay also features Gloor (Man Without Memory), from Mozambique and Rho­ ing in bizarre new methods of Vairo. Slated for an October air- actors Hagan Beggs, Michele the Festival plans to feature desia. high-tech murder and may­ hem. This $10-million dollar film began shooting May 14 and wraps Aug. 4. The production crew is 95% Canadian and local talent includes Joey Cramer, Jackson Davies, Todd Duck­ worth and Stephen Miller. In all, 24 roles are filled by B.C. actors. Clan OfThe Cave is a $16 mil­ lion-dollar feature film starring Darryl Hannah, John Dolittle, Pamela Reed, James Remar, and Tom G. Waites. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Jean Auel, the film is set in Neanderthal times 35,000 years ago. Filming com­ m e nced July 9 and will conti­ nue till mid-October in Vancou­ ver, Penticton and the North­ West Territories. Directed by Michael Chapman, a huge inte­ rior set has been constructed in West Vancouver's Panorama Studios, the former set loca­ tion for Iceman and Mother­ lode. The film is a Producers Sales organization film and features many Canadian actors including Karen Austin, Jan Mortel, Linda Quibel, Gloria Lee, Shane Punt, Barbara Dun­ can, Penny Smith, Tabatha Harrington and Joey Kramer. Certain Fury is an action­ drama feature film, starring Oscar winners Tatum O'Neal and Irene Cara that began prin­ .,. J~. Dtnlil.~ Cipal photography in New Westminster June 21 and is - Airspeed's expertise in due to wrap in 6 weeks. Written defining your·customs by Michael Jacobs, the story is a contemporary drama about a needs and eliminating black girl and a white girl clearance dilemmas saves thrown together in an escape time, money and headaches. from a courtroom massacre. The cast also features Nicholas Our job's to get it there; Campbell whose most recent yours is to call us - today. performance was in Dead Zone. Campbell has been twice nominated for a Genie award as Best Supporting Actor, for The Amateur and The Man in SA. Directed by Stephen Gyllen­ had, Certain Fury is executive produced by Lawrence Vanger

SO/Cinema Canada - September 1984 • C I" E MAti • package involves three films, enough, he is also working Darcus slots three pegged at about $400,000 each, with Toronto producer Felix for which he will serve as both Bednarsky adapting a play en­ CRTC demands pay-TV accounts VANCOUVER - Jack Darcus is producer and director. The titled Honor the Dead by Polish OTTAWA - The Canadian With regard to Canadian pro­ ready to sign a three-picture films, all to be produced with playwright Iredynski, and Radio-television and Tele­ grams distributed or intended deal with Superchannel Alberta, 18 months, are also written by finishing a screenplay called communications Commission for distribution, licensees one indication that the pro­ Darcus. Poker Night. So far, none of ICRTC) has proposed what it would have to detail amounts mise of pay-TV may still be­ Darcus' projects involve Tele­ terms "substantial changes" to expended in respect of the come a reality for some. Darcus' As if this were not work film Canada. two earlier sets of proposed rights to distribute such pro­ changes concerning pay- tele­ grams ; investment in such ; vision regulations. loans and loan-related losses In a public notice July 3, the for the financing of such ; and CRTC proposed a third version script and concept develop­ of s uggested changes in res­ m e nt. As well the statement ponse to comments received would have to detail amounts on earlier suggestions made expended in respect of the dis­ last January and in Nove mber tribution of non-Canadian pro­ 1982. grams, including amounts re­ The proposed changes, pur­ ceived or receivable from sub­ suant to subsection 1612) of the scribers; investments e ither Broadcast Act, would prohibit direct or indirect in Canadian distribution of programming programs ; the repayment of containing any abusive com­ loans made for financing Cana­ m ent or pictorial representation dian programs for distribution which, taken in context, would on the licensee's undertaking, be abus iv e on the basis of race, and the repayment of advances national or ethnic origin, color, made for script and concept religion, sex, age or mental and development of Canadian pro­ physical disability. The prohi­ grams. bition would also affect licen­ sees of conventional television (cont. from p.· 55) and radio stations and net­ works. Montreallthree in French, one A second set of proposed English), one in Quebec City cha nges would require pay and one in Toronto. Distributor licensees to file with the Com­ is Cinema Plus. mission on or before Nov. 30 of La guerre des tuques' avant­ each year, a statement offinan­ premiere wiU be held Oct. 3 at cial accounts for the year ending the Chateau Champlain Place . Aug. 31 detail~mg amounts ex­ du Canada cinema at a benefit : pended with respect of Cana­ for the Quebec Crippled Chil­ dian and non-Canadian pro­ dren's Society and the Fonda­ gramming. tion Lucie-Bruneau.

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September 1984 - Cinema CanadaJ61 • elM E MAt; • Animation Fest ready for Toronto debut TORONTO - The Canadian In­ O' Brien, comprise, from Cana­ electronic animation and com­ LFl3S ternational Animation Festival, da, Judith Crawley (The Loon's puter special effects. .••...... •.... in its fifth edition this year and Necklace) ; from the U.S. , Jane This year's festival, budget­ a division of PRODUCTION FILM MAKERS ASSOCIATES LTD. being held for the first time in Aaron (In Plain Sight); from ted at $350,000, has received Toronto, is the most important Scandinavia, Inni Karine Mel­ grants from the City of Toronto animation festival in North bye ; from Yugoslavia, Maja and the Department of External America and the only festival Zaninovic; and from Italy, Affairs. on this continent under the Gianalberto Bendazzi. The jury The festival is open to the MOTION PICTURE patronage of ASIFA, the Inter­ president is Norwegian film­ public and, according to Fest national Animated Film Asso­ maker Gro Strom of Oslo. director O'Brien, hopes "to AND ciation. Canadian films in competi­ teach people that there is more Celebrating its silver anni­ tion include: Sidney Gold­ to animation than cartoons." VIDEO LABORATORIES versary in 1985, ASIF A, an inter­ smith's Starlife, Gayle Thomas' Films in competition are national, non-profit, cultural The Boy And The Snow Goose, under 30 minutes in length, organization whose objective Craig Cooper's On Christmas with the bulk of the works from a division of is to encourage more wide­ Eve, Sylvie Fefer's Institute for 10-15 minutes in length. PRODUCTION FILM MAKERS spread recognition of the ani­ the Deaf, Graeme Ross' Pardon, ASSOCIATES LTD. mated media as an art form, Pierre Veilleux's Champignons, has via its president, world­ John Weldon's Emergency OTTA W A - As required by the renowned British animator Numbers, Daniel Nery's Felix Canada Elections Act, the Cana­ John Halas, recently proclaimed et Ciboulette, Marv Newland's dian Radio-television and Tele­ the Year of Animation, a world­ Anijam, Graeme Ross' 1.11.111, communications Commission THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS wide celebration of animation Paul Driessen's Tip Top, and (CRTC) has been notified of the that confers added importance John Weldon & Chris Hinton's allocation of six and one-half of FROM ONLY ONE ADDRESS to this year's Canadian festival. A Piece of the Action. broadcasting time which every Being held at the Ryerson Special programs will include broadcaster must make avail­ Polytechnical Institute Theatre retrospectives of James Whit­ able to registered political par­ from Aug.I3-18, the Fifth Cana­ ney's pioneering work in com­ ties. dian International Animation puter -animation as well as a In a circular July 12, the Festival will have some 150 special program presented by CRTC confirmed that the time 330 Adelaide St. W., films competing over 40 coun­ Judson Rosebush of Digital allocated to the political par­ Toronto, Ontario MSV 1 R4 tries, including the USSR and Effects Inc. of New York on the ties for the Sept. 4 general elec­ the People's Republic of China. increasing role of computers.in tion is as follows: 173 minutes Of the 121 Canadian films en­ the animation process. for the Liberal Party of Canada, TELEPHONE : (416) 593-0556 tered, 21 have made it to the Since it began, in Ottawa in 129 minutes for the Progressive TELEX: 06-219540 final competition. 1976, the Canadian Animation Conservative Party and 69 Competition jurors, selected Festival has been a major show­ minutes for the New Demo­ by Festival director Kelly case of latest developments in cratic Party.

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62/Cinema Canada - September 1984 • elM E MAG • SONY Hero (1973) ; Skip Tracer (1977) ; Ebert and Gene Siskal ; and, Festival of Festivals Le vieux pays au Rimbaud est last but not least; the galas - STARS ON BCTV mort (1977) ; Why Shoot The premiering new movies, (cant. from p. 46) Teacher (1977); L'hiver bleu directors, produce rs, and, of course, movie stars. Jean Chabot's Fiction nucleai­ (1979) ; Mourir a tue-tete (1979 ) reo and Stations (1983 ). • Experiments: Canada's The Northern Lights se ries is avant-garde in film, including coordinated bv critic Piers Cogeeo works by Michael Snow, Nor­ Ha ndling. (cant. fro m p. 46) man McLare n, the late Jack In the new Pe rsp ective pla ntation and development Cha mbers, Bruce Elde r and Canada program, titles include others. Jea n-Pierre Lefebvre's Le Jo ur will require considerable capi­ • Late Nights, Great S; Don Owen's Unfinished tal." Nights: Midnight movies such Business i U~a Poole's La f em ­ A call for appli cations, how­ as Richard Benner's Outra­ me de ['hOtel i Atom Egoyan's ever, could b e m ade once geous i Carle' s Fantastica i Next of Kin ; Gail Singer's Sto­ Cogeco's com p le ted appli ca­ Dusan Makaveyev's Sweet ries From North & South ; Pa ul tion h as been forma lly acknow­ Mavie, and Gilbert Taylor's Cowan's Democracy on Trial : led ged by the Commission. Frankenstein On Campus: The Morgen taler Affair i Chris The Cogeco Gro up op e ra tes • Front and Centre: Bruye re a nd Tom Shandel's two CBC- affilia ted tele vision breakthrough moments in The Walls i Giles Walke r a nd stations in Quebec as w e ll as a Canadian cinema with films John Smith's The Masculine cable firm. In recent months, such as Back To God's Coun­ Mystique ; Jean-Marc Larivie­ the group has wide ly spon­ try (1919) ; Lucky Corrigan re's Revolution i Patricia Gru­ sored concerts and o ther cul­ (1936) ; Convicted (1937) ; ben's Low Visibility; John tural activities. Whispering City (1947); The Paisz' Trilogy ; Dimitri Est­ BitterAsh (1963) ; Le chat dans delacropolis' Mother's Meat & Ie sac (1964) ; When Tomorrow Freud's Flesh; Jean-Claude Dies (1965); Winter Kept Us Labrecque's Les annees de Joseph H. Cohen, Director, Sony of Canada Ltd . Warm (1965) ; Le regne dujour reve i Micheline Lanctot's congratulates Don Smith, President, BCTV on the (1966) ; II ne faut pas m'ourir Sonatine i and Jean Beaudin's largest single purchase of Sony Betacam broadcast pour ~a (1967) ; High (1967) ; A Mario. equipment ever made by a television station in Married Couple (1969); Les Canada. Valued at approximately 2 million dollars, voitures d'eau (1969 ); The Furthermore, Festival84 will the Betacam equipment consists of 12-BVW3 Only Thing You Know (1971 ) ; be carrying five other programs The Rowdyman (1971); Le of fi lms: contemPorary world ENG Cameras, as well as other Sony broadcast temps d'une chasse (1972); cinema world documentaries ; audio and video production equipment including Wedding In White (1972); La an international perspective of 4-BVH 2000 I" C-FORMAT Recorders, for use vie revee (1972); La maudite films on the clash of cultures ; in BCTV's CHAN-TV, Vancouver and CHEK-TV galette (1972) ; Rejeanne Pado­ a tribute to an outstanding facilities in Victoria. vani (1973 ); Les dernieres m ember of the film community SONY OF CANADA LTD. fian~ailles (1973); Paperback 'hosted by U.S. critics Roger

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September 1984 - Ci nema Canada/63 • CINE MAt; • Orion in full operation despite FIR Adecision

OTTAWA - Next month will Orion, FIRA, or to minister of munications to "go slow" until 50 dbl rms/bath mark of first anniversary of the Communications Edward the recommendations regard­ decision (Sept. 30) by the For­ Lumley who is also the minister ing distribution in the recent T. V./te/ephone eign Investment Review Agency Responsible for the Adminis­ film policy have been applied, D. R./Bar/Rm. Sv. (FIRA) to disallow the applica­ tration of the Foreign Invest­ although the director-general Laundry/Limousine tions made by Orion Pictures ment Review Act. of Cultural Affairs at the DOC Distribution Corp. of New York Orion is believed to have re­ denies that this is the case. to do business in Canada. That submitted an application to Dewhurst clarified that seems to have made little dif­ FIRA (there is no appeal pro­ when policy objectives cannot FROBISHER INN ference, however, either to cess), and Gordon Dewhurst of be reconciled with FIRA objec­ the agency confirms that second tives, the Cabinet makes the PO BOX 610 applications are usually ultimate decision. At any time FROBISHER BAY, N.WT XOA OHO Fine Arts Cinema handled expeditiously by the thought appropriate, the TELEPHONE (819) 979-5241 agency in a matter of months. minister can seek a court order "One of the factors that FIRA to obtain compliance by an closes due to bidding may take into account," Cinema applicant to the original FIRA Canada was told, "is govern­ decision. TORONTO - After seven years HEAD OFFICE: ment policy, and usually deci­ Given the guarded atmos­ of presenting films such as 121 ST JOSEPH'S DRIVE sions which touch on culturally phere both at FIRA and at HAMILTON, ONT. L8N 2GI Padr Padrone, Bye Bye Brazil, related fields do tend to entail Orion, the only thing known for and J.A. TELEPHONE (416) 526-9480 Martin photographe, a lengthier process." sure is that the American dis­ the Fine Arts Cinema is closing Informed sources suggest tributor is still open for busi­ its doors. that FIRA may have been asked ness in Toronto and doing very A brief statement by L.J. by the department of Com- well. Beath and Associates Ltd. cited the current state of competition between the two remaining exhibitor chains (Cineplex and Famous Players) as the cause of the cinema's closing. The company said that "the Video Excellence unrealistically high expecta­ tions of distributors caused by thE VE'ty [,E~t in pEoplE & faci£itiE~ the government-imposed bid­ ding system" left no place in the market for an independent exhibitor dedicated to present­ ing the best available inter­ national films. Changes mark Spectrafilm staff

TORONTO- Spectrafilm con­ firmed that Bahman Farmanara is leaving his position as presi­ dent of the company to pursue his independent production interests. Rumors concerning Farna­ mara's position with Spectra­ film began after he returned to Toronto EFP introduces the latest in Remote Production Vehicles - PROMO, Canada following a 12-week a full state of the art Field Production Mobile, and Post Production System detainment in his native Iran. designed to travel anywhere! Li'nda Beath, former manag­ ing director of the company, PROMO compliments Toronto EFP's single camera 1", 3/4", and Betacam has taken over Farmanara's field production units, serving as a complete control centre for the most position as president. demanding single camera shoot, the monitoring of slaved cameras, or mUlti­ In other Spectrafilm news, camera (Hitachi SK-91) mobile requirements. Barry Young has been named chief executive officer. Young Toronto EFP's commitment to economical production and superior technical is president ofthe Sklyd Group, quality is reflected in PROMO's ability to edit program material into com­ a film and television financing plete segments or finished shows. PROMO also allows clientele to expedite group and the principal inves­ tor in Spectrafilm. costly on-line time when complex digital effects, and master mixdowns are Spectrafilm also announced of primary concern. the Promotion of Nick Perrott from national sales manager to PROMO houses 1/2" to 1/2" Betacam component and 3/4" AlB roll editing president of distribution. with slo-motion, and full on-board transfer capability to and from 1". Land based in Toronto, PROMO's contents are fully modular and thus, easi­ TORONTO - The best Canadian film of all time is Claude Jutra's ly shipped to the highest of buildings, or around the world. Mon oncle Antoine, according PROMO - advanced Field Production for discriminating Field Producers. to an international poll of over 100 filmmakers, critics,jour­ Excellence in video, at your door - from Toronto EFP. nalists, academics and cura­ tors. 36 Lisburn Crescent Toronto, Ontario, Canada Festival of Festivals Director For an appointment 'to discover the difference Wayne Clarkson announced or facilities reservations, call: the results of a poll for the ten best Canadian films during a oronto EFP (416) 494·1695 press conference Aug. 1.

64/Cinema Canada - September 1984 • C IN E MA~ • La femme de ['hotel is but The story, set on the shores son told Cinema Canada. " I Pe ter O'Brian produced Phil­ Femme to Transit one feature from Quebec's of Lake Okanagan, tells of a 12- think it w ill be an interesting lip Borsos' award-winning The 1984 "art and essai" crop for year-old girl named Sandy who partnership." Grey Fox . MONTREAL - Sales agent which Films Transit has ac­ is torn between the responsi­ Films Transit has obtained quired international sales bilities of a role model imposed world sales rights for the rights. Other features include: by her English parents and the recently completed Quebec Sonatine, La dame de cou­ seduction of the American rock CASTING AGENCY FOR SALE feature La femme de ['hotel. leurs, Jacques et Novembre, and roll culture of the 1950s. The agreement was reached and Les annees de reve. July 20 with the producer, [t is a story about relation­ Film Transit will also inter­ ACPAV. Shot in settings in ships; girls and boys, kids and 3,000 men-women actors and models nationally distribute, in con­ Montreal and Quebec City in cars, set against the backdrop junction with producers Les 800 children with experience in films and late 1983, La femme is a story of a Dominion Day holiday a nd Productions La Fete, Andre commercials. about urban alienation. Que­ cherry picking time in the Melanyon's La guerre des desert orchards of the Okana­ Up-to-date resumes and VH 5 identifications. bec distributor is J.-A. Lapointe tuques. Films Inc. gan Valley. Directed by Swiss-born U~a My American Cousin stars Pool, who helmed the critically John Wildman as Sandy's fast­ Photo from Sept~mber 11th only: acclaimed Strass cafe 1981, the 0' Brian on Be shoot living cousin Butch, Margaret new feature stars Quebec ac­ Langrick as Sandy, and Jane (514) 484-6298, or tresses Louise Marleau and TORONTO - My American Cou­ Mortifee as Sandy's mother. (514) 842-0143 Paule Baillargeon. The film sin, an autobiographical ac­ The $1.2 million production, will be sub-titled for the Euro­ count by writer/ director Sandy funded by Telefilm and private pean and English-Canadian Wilson of Vancouver, will be investment, goes on location in markets with a European pre­ produced by Independent Pic­ Penticton, B.C., Aug. 20, for five miere tentatively set for the tures Inc., company president weeks. Berlin Festival in February Peter O'Brian announced Aug. ''I'm very excited to be work­ 1985. 3. ing with Peter," director WiI-

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